Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.0° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.3° N, 88.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Stone City Formation (Claiborne Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 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 98726: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 20.10.2010, edited by Laurie Eccles
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Lapparia mooreana volute | |
Galeodea planotecta Meyer and Aldrich 1886 snail | |
Bivalvia | |