TMM Kincaid 15 -lithified (Paleocene of the United States)

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, glauconitic marl

• glauconitic marl

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, replaced with calcite

Reposited in the TMM

• TMM Catalog #NPL 4606

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
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Jupiteria sp. Bellardi 1875 pointed nut clam
Jupiteria smirna pointed nut clam
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
Cucullaea ? sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
"Pleurotoma ? sp." = Turris
"Pleurotoma ? sp." = Turris Röding 1798 turrid
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis), "Volutocorbis ? sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis) Dall 1890 volute
"Volutocorbis ? sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis) Dall 1890 volute