Lone Oak Quarry (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Hunt County, Texas (33.0° N, 95.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 75.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Pisgah Member (Kincaid Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Lone Oak Limestone lentil of the Kincaid Fm, Midway Group. AGE: Danian, according to Hansen (1978); Paleocene, according to Miller (1947). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, ooidal, shelly/skeletal, yellow, sandy limestone

• ENVIRONMENT: Sandy nature and presence of ooids suggest an open shallow subtidal environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Impure oolitic limestone, with a few fossils according to Plummer (1938). Sandy yellow limestone according to Gardner (1933). LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens and facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Unknown collector. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: A. K. Miller. 1947. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas. Geological Society of America Memoir 23:1-234 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81884: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to Nautiloidea described in primary publication. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
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Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Cimomia vaughani
Cimomia vaughani Gardner 1923 nautiloid