PBDB Collection

Sohl and Koch OFR # 734 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Schumansville; USGS # 16668

Where: Guadalupe County, Texas (29.6° N, 98.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 77.1° 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; gray, silty claystone

Size class: mesofossils

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 4497: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
Cerithioidea - Turritellidae	Turritella vertebroides Turritella vertebroides Morton 1834 turret shell Turritella vertebroides Morton
Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae	Striaticostatum sp. Striaticostatum sp. Sohl 1963 wentletrap Striaticostatum sp.
Mesogastropoda -	Mesogastropoda indet. Mesogastropoda indet. Thiele 1925 snail Mesogastropods indeterminate
Neogastropoda - Buccinidae	Aliofusus sp. Aliofusus sp. Stephenson 1941 true whelk Aliofusus sp.
Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae	Euspira rectilabrum Euspira rectilabrum Conrad 1858 moon snail Euspira rectilabrum (Conrad)
Bivalvia
Cardiida - Cardiidae	Protocardia (Brevicardium) guadalupense Protocardia (Brevicardium) guadalupense cockle Protocardium (Brevicardium) quadal - originally entered as "Protocardium guadalupense"