Sohl and Koch OFR # 832 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Frio River; USGS # 1865

Where: Uvalde County, Texas (29.1° N, 99.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 78.6° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Escondido Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• Haustator bilira assemblage zone.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified, gray, sandy, calcareous siltstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: 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 4554: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea cortex oyster
Crassostrea cortex (Conrad)