TMM Midway 1 (Paleocene to of the United States)

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
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum conoideum Vaughan 1900 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam