Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.0° N, 97.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 79.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wills Point Formation (Midway Group), Early/Lower Paleocene to Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 58.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, glauconitic, calcareous sandstone
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Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the TMM
• TMM Catalog #NPL 9279, 9285, 9295 & 9308
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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 86427: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 02.02.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis) Dall 1890 volute Volutocorbis sp. (labeled Volutilithes sp. )
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