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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Hercoglossa gardnerae Stenzel 1940 nautiloid |