Where: Caldwell County, Texas (29.9° N, 97.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 78.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kincaid Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• formation-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 91803: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 20.10.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cucullaea macrodonta clam | |
Ostrea "sp. L" Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Ostrea (Ostrea) pulaskensis Harris 1892 oyster | |
? Nemocardium "sp. E" Meek 1876 cockle | |
Lucina (Lucinisca) "spp." Dall 1901 clam | |
Venericardia (Venericor) smithii Aldrich 1894 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Tornatellaea "spp." Conrad 1860 snail | |
? Lyria "sp. D", "Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
? Lyria "sp. D" Gray 1847 volute
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
Levifusus "sp. M" Conrad 1865 snail
Levifusus indet. Conrad 1865 snail | |
? Fasciolaria plummeri tulip snail
Latirus ? stephensoni snail | |
Cypraea "sp. L" Linnaeus 1758 cowry | |
cf. Calyptraphorus sp. Conrad 1857 snail | |
Turritella "sp. P" Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Mesalia "sp. F" Gray 1847 turret shell |