Also known as NPL 4685

Where: Sabine County, Texas (32.9° N, 93.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 78.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sabinetown Bluff Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, green, sandy, conglomeratic marl

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the TMM

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• J. Sessa identified this TMM sample-NLP 4685

Primary reference: J. A. Sessa, T. J. Bralower, M. E. Patzkowsky, J. C. Handley, and L. C. Ivany. 2012. Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain. Paleobiology 38(2):218-239 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89949: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 21.06.2009

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