Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.1° N, 97.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 78.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kincaid Formation (Midway Group), Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)
• labeled Midway Group, likely Kincaid
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• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, glauconitic marl
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, replaced with calcite
Reposited in the TMM
• TMM Catalog #NPL 4606
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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 86437: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 02.02.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Jupiteria sp. Bellardi 1875 pointed nut clam
Jupiteria smirna pointed nut clam | |
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
Cucullaea ? sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Pleurotoma ? sp." = Turris
"Pleurotoma ? sp." = Turris Röding 1798 turrid | |
"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis), "Volutocorbis ? sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis) Dall 1890 volute
"Volutocorbis ? sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis) Dall 1890 volute |