Sohl and Koch OFR # 604: Late Maastrichtian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Plicatulidae
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Plicatula (Plicatula) tetrica
Conrad 1860
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Plicatula (Plicatula) tetrica Conr | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Pycnodonte sp.
(Fischer von Waldheim 1835)
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Pycnodonte sp. | ||||||||||
Pycnodonte vesicularis
(Lamarck 1806)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck | ||||||||||
Gryphaeostrea vomer
(Morton 1828)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Gryphaeostrea vomer Morton | ||||||||||
Exogyra costata
(Say 1820)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Exogyra costata Say | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Mytilida
- Mytilidae
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Botula carolinensis
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Botula carolinensis (Conrad) | ||||||||||
Demospongiae
- Clavulina
- Clionaidae
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Cliona sp.
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Clione sp. | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Bowie |
Coordinates: | 33.5° North, 94.7° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 38.3° North, 72.5° West | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
*Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Senonian |
*International age/stage: | Middle - Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
Key time interval: | Late Maastrichtian | Ammonoid zone: | Discoscaphites conradi |
Age range of interval: | 72.1 - 66 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Corsicana Marl | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Haustator bilira assemblage zone |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray sandstone | ||
Environment: | marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original calcite |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Museum repositories: | USGS |
Collection method comments: others collection |
Metadata
Also known as: | Hodgson; USGS # 12932 | ||
Database number: | 4396 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Kosnik | Enterer: | M. Kosnik |
Modifier: | L. Eccles | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
Created: | 1999-08-14 13:00:00 | Last modified: | 2010-11-10 18:49:55 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-08-14 13:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
282. | N. F. Sohl and C. F. Koch. 1984. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain. USGS Open File Report 84-687:1-282 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik] |
Secondary references:
29915 | J. A. Sessa, T. J. Bralower, M. E. Patzkowsky, J. C. Handley, and L. C. Ivany. 2012. Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain. Paleobiology 38(2):218-239 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa] |