Where: Milam County, Texas (31.1° N, 96.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 77.3° W)
• 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 91832: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 21.10.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium mediaviense tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Cardium" "sp. A" Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Periploma "sp. E" Schumacher 1816 clam | |
Venericardia (Venericor) smithii Aldrich 1894 clam | |
Amusium (Propeamussium) alabamense Aldrich 1886 mud scallop | |
Ostrea (Ostrea) pulaskensis Harris 1892 oyster | |
Cucullaea macrodonta clam | |
Jupiteria (Ledina) smirna Dall 1898 pointed nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Atys (Aliculastrum) "sp. A"" = Aliculastrum
"Atys (Aliculastrum) "sp. A"" = Aliculastrum Pilsbry 1896 snail | |
Tornatellaea "spp." Conrad 1860 snail | |
Calyptraphorus aldrichi snail | |
Exilia pergracilis Conrad 1860 snail | |
Levifusus "sp. O" Conrad 1865 snail
Levifusus "sp. P" Conrad 1865 snail | |
? Falsifusus "sp. B" snail | |
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
Agaronia mediavia snail |