Where: Maverick County, Texas (28.7° N, 100.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 81.7° 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 92222: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 03.11.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
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Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Venericardia (Venericor) smithii, Venericardia (Venericor) mediaplata, "Venericardia hesperia" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) hesperia, "? Glyptoactis moa" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) moa
Venericardia (Venericor) smithii Aldrich 1894 clam
Venericardia (Venericor) mediaplata Gardner and Bowles 1939 clam
"Venericardia hesperia" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) hesperia Gardner 1923 clam
"? Glyptoactis moa" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) moa Gardner 1935 clam | |
Crassatella gabbi clam | |
"Phacoides (? Miltha) albaripus" = Miltha
"Phacoides (? Miltha) albaripus" = Miltha clam | |
cf. Pitar hawtofi venus clam | |
Cucullaea texana clam | |
Gastropoda | |
? Cerithium "sp. A" Bruguière 1789 cerith snail |