Also known as USGS Loc. 11754
Where: Maverick County, Texas (28.7° N, 100.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 82.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wills Point Formation (Midway Group), Danian to Danian (66.0 - 59.2 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 91825: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 20.10.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
"Linthia maverickensis" = Linthia alabamensis
"Linthia maverickensis" = Linthia alabamensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 heart urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Glycymeris "sp. E" Da Costa 1778 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Epitonium "sp. C" Bolten 1798 wentletrap | |
Turritella "sp. D" Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Calyptraphorus popenoe snail | |
Falsifusus tobar snail | |
Levifusus lithae snail | |
Murex (Argobuccinum) mansfieldi murex snail | |
Lacunaria lithae moon snail |