Where: Kaufman County, Texas (32.4° N, 96.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 76.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kincaid Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• group-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 98880: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 21.10.2010, edited by Laurie Eccles
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Venericardia (Venericor) smithii Aldrich 1894 clam | |
? Pitar ripleyanus venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Mesalia "spp." Gray 1847 turret shell
Turritella "spp. N" Lamarck 1799 turret shell |