Where: Caldwell County, Texas (29.9° N, 97.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 79.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kincaid Formation (Midway Group), Early/Lower Paleocene to Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 58.7 Ma)
• Midway, possibly Kincaid Fm.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithology not reported
Reposited in the TMM
• TMM Catalog #NPL 4598
Primary reference: J. A. Sessa, M. E. Patzkowsky, and T. J. Bralower. 2009. Impact of lithification on the diversity, size distribution, and recovery dynamics of marine invertebrate assemblages. Geology 37(2):115-118 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 86283: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 27.01.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Flabellum johnsonae stony coral
Flabellum conoideum Vaughan 1900 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam |