Sohl and Koch OFR # 607: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Graciliala cooki
5 specimens
Graciliala cooki (Stephenson)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella conradi Morton 1833
2 specimens
Veniella conradi (Morton)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra costata (Say 1820)
1 specimen
original and current combination Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
Exogyra costata Say
Gryphaeostrea vomer (Morton 1828)
1 specimen
Gryphaeostrea vomer Morton
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Hopkins
Coordinates: 33.3° North, 95.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.3° North, 73.2° West
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper 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/Upper Maastrichtian Ammonoid zone: Discoscaphites conradi
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 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:glauconitic,gray lithified sandy,calcareous lime mudstone
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
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:Sulphur Bluff; USGS # 5321
Database number:4397
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 18:50:14
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]