PBDB Collection

Sohl and Koch OFR # 711 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Garfield; USGS # 1641

Where: Travis County, Texas (30.2° N, 97.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 76.4° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Discoscaphites conradi ammonoid zone, Corsicana Marl Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Haustator bilira assemblage zone

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, gray claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Reposited in the USGS

• others collection

Primary reference: N. F. Sohl and C. F. Koch. 1984. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain. USGS Open File Report 84-687:1-282 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4479: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
-	Vertebrata indet., Vertebrata indet. Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801 Fish parts Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801 Otolith
Bivalvia
Nuculanida - Nuculanidae	Nuculana sp. Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam Nuculana sp.
Carditida - Carditidae	Vetericardiella sp. Vetericardiella sp. Chavan 1969 clam Vetericardiella sp.
Cardiida - Arcticidae	Tenea parilis Tenea parilis clam Tenea parilis Conrad
Cardiida - Mactridae	Cymbophora berryi Cymbophora berryi clam Cymbophora berryi (Gardner)
Pholadida - Corbulidae	Caestocorbula (Caesticorbula) crassaplica Caestocorbula (Caesticorbula) crassaplica Vincent 1910 clam Caesticorbula (Caesticorbula) cras - originally entered as "Caesticorbula crassaplica"