TMM Wills Point 20 -lithified (Paleocene to of the United States)

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

• well lithified glauconitic calcareous sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the TMM

• TMM Catalog #NPL 9279, 9285, 9295 & 9308

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

Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Saxolucina claytonia clam
Saxolucina claytonia (labeled Lucina claytonia)
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Gastropoda steinkern
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Levifusus hubbardi snail
Levifusus hubbardi (labeled Fusus hubbardana)
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis) Dall 1890 volute
Volutocorbis sp. (labeled Volutilithes sp. )