USGS 18414, Rose Ranch (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
"Hemiaster jacksoni" = Mecaster batnensis
"Hemiaster jacksoni" = Mecaster batnensis Coquand 1862 heart urchin