Ten Mile Creek, WalMart Section, 22m (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Dallas County, Texas (32.6° N, 96.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 65.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bruceville Member (Austin Chalk Formation), Early/Lower Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified marl and lithified chalk

• marl, marly chalk and limestone

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 99934: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.11.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Cordiceramus arnoldi" = Inoceramus (Cordiceramus) clam
Cordiceramus cf. cordiformis Sowerby 1823 clam
Platyceramus cycloides Wegner 1905 clam