Sohl and Koch OFR # 721 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Mendoza; USGS # 13777

Where: Caldwell County, Texas (30.0° N, 97.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 76.6° 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; lithified, silty claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with 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 4487: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Mathildidae
Gegania sp.
Gegania sp. Jeffreys 1884 snail
Tuba sp.
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
? Pseudomalaxis sp.
? Pseudomalaxis sp. Fischer 1850 snail
Pseudomalaxis ? sp. - originally entered as "Pseudomalaxis ? sp."
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Micrabaciidae
Micrabacia sp., "Micrabacia navarroensis n. sp." = Micrabacia radiata
Micrabacia sp. Milne-Edwards 1849 stony coral
Micrabacia spp.
"Micrabacia navarroensis n. sp." = Micrabacia radiata Goldfuss 1827 stony coral