Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.2° N, 97.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 78.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wills Point Formation (Midway Group), Danian to Danian (66.0 - 59.2 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 98727: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 20.10.2010, edited by Laurie Eccles
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Crassatella ioannes clam | |
Jupiteria (Ledina) smirna Dall 1898 pointed nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Natica (Naticarius) reversa" = Naticarius
"Natica (Naticarius) reversa" = Naticarius moon snail | |
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
Agaronia mediavia snail | |
Cancellaria "spp. A" Lamarck 1799 snail | |
Scalina dolosa wentletrap |