Lacy Creek (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Kaufman County, Texas (32.4° N, 96.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 76.2° 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 Kincaid Fm, Midway Group. AGE: Danian, according to Hansen (1978); Paleocene, according to Miller (1947). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Top of Kincaid Formation (below the base of the Tehuacana Limestone shell bed).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, silty claystone

• ENVIRONMENT: Interval just below the Tehuacana member in Milam County (~200 km SW) is interpreted to be middle neritic (50-100 m) by D'Agostino & Yancey (1996).
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unconsolidated clay and clayey silt. LITHIFICATION: Poorly 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 81886: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.07.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

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