Where: Medina County, Texas (29.3° N, 99.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 80.2° 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 92224: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 03.11.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata | |
Conopeum damicornis Canu and Bassler 1920 | |
Gastropoda | |
Calyptraphorus aldrichi snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Pitar pteleinus venus clam | |
Corbicula texana clam | |
Venericardia (Baluchicardia) bulla Dall 1903 clam | |
Cucullaea texana clam | |
Ostrea kochae oyster |