Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.0° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.1° N, 86.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Viesca Member (Weches Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 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 98703: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 19.10.2010, edited by Laurie Eccles
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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Cryptochorda stenostoma volute
Lapparia elongata volute
Lapparia nuda Stenzel and Turner 1940 volute | |
Sinum declive Conrad 1833 moon snail |