USGS 09560 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Three-fourths mile north of Corsicana-Chatfield road, and 0.25 mile north of Rock Branch, 3 miles in an air line northeast of Corsicana, Navarro County.

Where: Navarro County, Texas (32.1° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 68.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nostoceras hyatti ammonoid zone, Nacatoch Sand Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Stephenson (1941) had this unit as Maastrichtian, Cobban and Kennedy (1995) have updated it to uppermost Campanian via ammonite zonation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• no entry

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the USGS

• O. B. Hopkins 1915

Primary reference: L. W. Stephenson. 1941. The larger invertebrate fossils of the Navarro group of Texas. The University of Texas Publication 4101:1-625 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7512: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia stantoni Stephenson 1941 clam
Trigonia stantoni Stephenson
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Pleurocardia (Trachycardium) sp. Mörch 1853 cockle
Cardium (Trachycardium) spp.
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora subtilis clam
Cymbophora subtilis Stephenson
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Legumen ellipticum venus clam
Legumen ellipticum Conrad
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Nemodon grandis navarroanus Conrad 1869 clam
Nemodon grandis navarroanus Stephenson
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
Idonearca sp.
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Haustator trilira" = Turritella trilira
"Haustator trilira" = Turritella trilira Conrad 1860 turret shell
Turritella trilira Conrad
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Drilluta crassicostata snail
Drilluta crassicostata Stephenson