Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.3° N, 97.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 78.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Solomon Creek Member (Wills Point Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Wills Point Fm, Midway Group. AGE: Danian, according to Hansen (1978); Paleocene, according to Miller (1947). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the uppermost part of the Wills Point Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments
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 81888: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Cimomia vaughani Gardner 1923 nautiloid |