Sohl and Koch OFR # 902 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Elm Cr; USGS # 8264

Where: Maverick County, Texas (29.0° N, 100.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 79.1° W)

• small collection-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 sandstone

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 4580: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
Shark parts
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
Bone material
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea cortex oyster
Crassostrea cortex (Conrad)