Where: Kinney County, Texas (29.3° N, 100.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.5° N, 68.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Eagle Ford Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R.R. Bennett; 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 78186: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
"Hemiaster jacksoni" = Mecaster batnensis
"Hemiaster jacksoni" = Mecaster batnensis Coquand 1862 heart urchin |