Where: Dallas County, Texas (32.6° N, 96.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 65.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bruceville Member (Austin Chalk Formation), Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified marl and lithified chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: A. S. Gale, W. J. Kennedy, J. A. Lees, M. R. Petrizzo, and I. Walaszczyk. 2007. An integrated study (inoceramid bivalves, ammonites, calcareous nannofossils, planktonic foraminifera, stable carbon isotopes) of the Ten Mile Creek section, Lancaster, Dallas County, north Texas, a candidate Global Boundary Stratotype Section and point for the base of the Santonian Stage. Acta Geologica Polonica 57(2):113-160 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99929: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.11.2010

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