USGS 14061 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Cut in Clarksville-Rosali road, northward-facing slope of Cuthand Creek valley, 4.5 miles east by north of Rosali, Red River County;

Where: Red River County, Texas (33.6° N, 95.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 72.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nacatoch Sand Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, calcareous sandstone

• from calcareous fossiliferous concretionary sandstone 6 to 10 feet below the top of a 50-foot section of gray marine sand.

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the USGS

• L. W. Stephenson 1928

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 7541: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Basommatophora - Siphonariidae
Anisomyon haydeni pulmonate
Anisomyon haydeni Shumard
 Sorbeoconcha - Capulidae
Capulus cuthandensis snail
Capulus cuthandensis Stephenson
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
? Lomirosa sp. Stephenson 1941 snail
Lomirosa? sp.
 Neogastropoda - Pyropsidae
Medionapus elongatus snail
Medionapus elongatus Stephenson
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Anchura lamari snail
Anchura lamari Stephenson
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Gyrodes spillmani" = Gyrodes (Sohlella) spillmani
"Gyrodes spillmani" = Gyrodes (Sohlella) spillmani Gabb 1861 moon snail
Gyrodes spillmani Gabb
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
Inoceramus sp. e Stephenson 1941
Inoceramus ? vanuxemi clam
Inoceramus vanuxemi Meek and Hayden?
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Scaphites rugosus ammonite
Scaphites rugosus Stephenson
"Scaphites brevis" = Hoploscaphites brevis Meek 1876 ammonite
Scaphites brevis Meek
 Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
Nostoceras hyatti Stephenson 1941 ammonite
Nostoceras hyatti Stephenson
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Turrilites sp. Lamarck 1801 ammonite
Turrilites sp.