Also known as Staples; USGS # 10878

Where: Guadalupe County, Texas (29.8° N, 97.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 76.9° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Haustator bilira assemblage zone

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone

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 4494: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999

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