Solomon Farm (Paleocene of the United States)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Solomon Creek Member is brackish to non-marine according to Kellough (1965)
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Thinly laminated, interbedded silts, sands, and clays containing carbonaceous plant remains, the nautiloid Hercoglossa [presumably Cimomia vaughani], and Teredo borings interspersed with prominent concretionary ledges of sandstone. 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 81888: 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.
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Cimomia vaughani Gardner 1923 nautiloid