Where: Sabine County, Texas (31.4° N, 93.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 84.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Stone City Member (Crockett Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, argillaceous sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: See Veatch survey 1902, P. 129
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Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91119: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 05.09.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium "sp. C" Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Cadulus (Dischides) subcoarcuatus tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Architectonica vespertina sundial
Architectonica (Granosolarium) meekana Harris and Palmer 1947 sundial subspecies "Architectonica (Granosolarium) meekana splendida"
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Tiburnus texanus snail | |
Rhizorus loisae snail | |
Mnestia dekayi snail | |
"Turritella rina" = Haustator rina
"Turritella rina" = Haustator rina turret shell | |
"Ampullella recurva" = Ampullina
"Ampullella recurva" = Ampullina snail | |
Acirsa (Hemiacirsa) whitneyi Palmer 1937 wentletrap | |
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Buccitriton texanum true whelk
Metula gracilis Johnson 1899 true whelk | |
Levifusus spp. Conrad 1865 snail
Levifusus mortoniopsis snail | |
Hastula sabina auger snail | |
Raphitoma rebecella snail
Raphitoma sabinia snail | |
Michela trabeatoides Harris 1895 turrid | |
Uromitra brazosana ribbed mitre | |
Marginella (Dentimargo) constrictoides margin shell | |
"Bullata semenoides" = Closia (Bullata), Lapparia mooreana
"Bullata semenoides" = Closia (Bullata) volute
Lapparia mooreana volute | |
Pterynotus (Pterynotus) sabinola Palmer 1960 mustached bat
Hexaplex (Hexaplex) silvaticus Palmer 1937 murex snail | |
Harpa sp. Röding 1798 snail | |
"Ectinochilus texanum" = Rimella
"Ectinochilus texanum" = Rimella true conch | |
"Transovula (Oxycypraea) naviculae" = Prosimnia naviculae
"Transovula (Oxycypraea) naviculae" = Prosimnia naviculae Palmer 1937 snail | |
Galeodea planotecta Meyer and Aldrich 1886 snail | |
"Distorsio (Personella) septemdentata" = Sassia (Personella) septemdentata
"Distorsio (Personella) septemdentata" = Sassia (Personella) septemdentata Gabb 1860 triton shell | |
"Ficopsis texana" = Ficus
"Ficopsis texana" = Ficus fig shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Verticordia "sp. C" Sowerby 1844 clam |