Where: Uvalde County, Texas (29.3° N, 99.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 68.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Austin Chalk Formation, Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by T.W. Vaughan; 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 78188: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Hemiaster sabinal n. sp.
Hemiaster sabinal n. sp. Cooke 1953 heart urchin |