Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.2° N, 97.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 78.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kincaid Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
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 91778: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 19.10.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Jupiteria (Ledina) smirna Dall 1898 pointed nut clam | |
Glyptoactis eoa clam | |
Crassatella ioannes clam | |
? Kelliella aldrichi clam | |
Amusium (Propeamussium) alabamense Aldrich 1886 mud scallop | |
Cucullaea macrodonta clam | |
Limopsis "sp." Sassi 1827 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Acteocina "sp. A" Gray 1847 barrel-bubble
Scaphander "sp." Monfort 1810 snail | |
Architectonica phoenicea sundial | |
Tornatellaea leai snail | |
Bittium (Bittium) estellensis Aldrich 1921 cerith snail | |
Euspira perspecta moon snail
? Polinices julianna moon snail
"Natica (Naticarius) reversa" = Naticarius moon snail | |
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
Cancellaria "spp. A" Lamarck 1799 snail | |
"Falsifusus" "sp. A" snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium mediaviense tusk shell |