Cuervo Creek, upstream from San Antonio outpost (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as M 582

Where: Maverick County, Texas (28.4° N, 100.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 81.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kincaid Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Paleocene, Lower Midway Group, Upper part of Kincaid Fm, about 30-55 feet below the top of the Midway.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; glauconitic marl

• "glauconite marl"

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 98998: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 25.10.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Hercoglossa gardnerae Stenzel 1940 nautiloid