USGS 7460, Big Deciper Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Clark County, Arkansas (34.1° N, 93.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 64.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Marlbrook Marl Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L.W. Stephenson; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78183: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster wetherbyi de Loriol 1887 heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Micraster americanus Stephenson 1941 heart urchin