Where: Milam County, Texas (30.8° N, 97.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 79.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Seguin Formation, Middle Paleocene to Middle Paleocene (61.7 - 55.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: W. J. Foster, C. L. Garvie, A. M. Weiss, A. D. Muscente, M. Aberhan, J. W. Counts, and R. C. Martindale. 2020. Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals. Scientific Reports 10:2176 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/W. Foster]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84646: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 05.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Periploma sp. Schumacher 1816 clam | |
"Nucula mediavia" = Nucula (Nucula) mediavia
"Nucula mediavia" = Nucula (Nucula) mediavia Harris 1896 nut clam | |
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Gastropoda | |
Volvulella sp. Newton 1891 snail | |
Turridae sp., "Coronia ostrarupis" = Gemmula (Coronia)
"Coronia ostrarupis" = Gemmula (Coronia) turrid | |
Orthosurcula adeona ribbed mitre | |
Levifusus sp. Conrad 1865 snail | |
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Fasciolariidae indet. Gray 1853 snail | |
"Volutocorbis olssoni" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis olssoni" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
Agaronia sp. Gray 1839 snail | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail
Euspira marylandica Conrad 1865 moon snail | |
Cerithiidae indet. Fleming 1822 cerith snail | |
Turritella polysticha turret shell |