Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.0° N, 97.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 78.7° 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 92205: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 03.11.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Colubraria cedri true whelk | |
"? Volutocorbis "sp. A"" = Athleta (Volutocorbis), "Volutocorbis limposis" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"? Volutocorbis "sp. A"" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) Dall 1890 volute
"Volutocorbis limposis" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute |