Where: Limestone County, Texas (31.4° N, 96.6° W: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 76.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tehuacana Member (Kincaid Formation), 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 91820: 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 | |
Venericardia (Venericor) smithii Aldrich 1894 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Calyptraphorus "sp. B" Conrad 1857 snail |