Where: Falls County, Texas (31.3° N, 97.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 77.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pisgah Member (Kincaid Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• in foram zone P1c
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, argillaceous siltstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
Primary reference: T. A. Hansen, B. R. Farrell, and B. Upshaw, III. 1993. The first 2 million years after the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in east Texas: Rate and paleoecology of the molluscan recovery. Paleobiology 19(2):251-265 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5591: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 20.10.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritellidae indet. Lovén 1847 turret shell | |
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Exilia cf. pergracilis Conrad 1860 snail | |
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Olividae indet. Latreille 1825 olive snail | |
Volutidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 volute | |
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail | |
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Retusa emoryi snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Solemya bilix Awning Clam | |
"Nucula mediavia" = Nucula (Nucula) mediavia
"Nucula mediavia" = Nucula (Nucula) mediavia Harris 1896 nut clam | |
Nuculanidae indet. Adams and Adams 1858 pointed nut clam
Saccella sp. Woodring 1925 pointed nut clam
Jupiteria smirna pointed nut clam | |
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Amusium alabamense Aldrich 1886 mud scallop | |
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster | |
Carditidae indet. Fleming 1820 clam | |
Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799 clam | |
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Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814 tellin clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862 tusk shell | |
Anthozoa | |
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