USGS 13864 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Burlington road, 10 miles north of Cameron, Milam County;

Where: Milam County, Texas (30.9° N, 97.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 75.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Neylandville Marl Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandy, calcareous claystone

• a few feet of sandy calcareous clay (marl) in ditch.

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the USGS

• C. H. Dane 1927

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 7539: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia argentaria Morton 1833 jingle
Anomia argentaria Morton
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
"Siderastrea cretacea" = Astrangia cretacea
"Siderastrea cretacea" = Astrangia cretacea Bölsche 1870 stony coral