Sohl and Koch OFR # 914 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Chimineas / Chimineas Ranch; USGS # 10285

Where: Maverick County, Texas (28.8° N, 100.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 79.2° 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, silty sandstone

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 4591: 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)
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus (Inoceramus) sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
Inoceramus (Inoceramus) sp.
 Arcida - Arcidae
Striarca sp. Conrad 1862 clam
Striarca sp.
unclassified
  -
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
Shark parts