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 | |
Cucullaea macrodonta clam | |
Limopsis "sp." Sassi 1827 clam | |
Amusium (Propeamussium) alabamense Aldrich 1886 mud scallop | |
? Kelliella aldrichi clam | |
Glyptoactis eoa clam | |
Crassatella ioannes clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium mediaviense tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Bittium (Bittium) estellensis Aldrich 1921 cerith snail | |
Cancellaria "spp. A" Lamarck 1799 snail | |
"Falsifusus" "sp. A" snail | |
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
Euspira perspecta moon snail
? Polinices julianna moon snail
"Natica (Naticarius) reversa" = Naticarius moon snail | |
Architectonica phoenicea sundial | |
Tornatellaea leai snail | |
Scaphander "sp." Monfort 1810 snail
Acteocina "sp. A" Gray 1847 barrel-bubble |