Where: Johnson County, Texas (32.5° N, 97.4° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 62.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Woodbine Group, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)
• "Eocene".; Cretaceous (Cenomanian); Woodbine Group
• group-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; ferruginous, brown sandstone
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 98878: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 21.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pitar (Lamelliconcha) yoakumi venus clam |