Where: Robertson County, Texas (30.9° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 87.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wheelock Member (Cook Mountain Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 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 92237: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 04.11.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Distorsio (Personella) septemdentata" = Sassia (Personella) septemdentata
"Distorsio (Personella) septemdentata" = Sassia (Personella) septemdentata Gabb 1860 triton shell | |
"Eodrillia texana" = Tropisurcula (Eodrillia)
"Eodrillia texana" = Tropisurcula (Eodrillia) snail | |
Glyptotoma conradiana cone shell | |
Trypanotoma terebriformis Harris 1937 turrid | |
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Bivalvia | |
Crassatella antestriata Gabb 1860 clam |