Also known as East base hill; USGS # 7604
Where: Travis County, Texas (30.2° N, 97.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 76.5° W)
• small collection-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; gray claystone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Reposited in the USGS
• Stephenson 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 4483: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pycnodonte vesicularis, "Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
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