Sohl and Koch OFR # 671: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella serica Conrad 1860
10 specimens
Crenella serica Conrad
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Cubitostrea tecticosta (Gabb 1860)
1 specimen
Cubitostrea tecticosta (Gabb)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Ostrea sp.
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaeostrea sp. Conrad 1865
1 specimen
Gryphaeostrea sp.
Exogyra sp. Say 1820
Exogyra sp.
Exogyra costata (Say 1820)
7 specimens
original and current combination Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
Exogyra costata Say
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Pyropsidae
Medionapus sp. Stephenson 1941
1 specimen
Medionapus sp.
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Anchura sp. Conrad 1860
1 specimen
Anchura sp.
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Thylacus cretaceus Conrad 1860
10 specimens
Thylacus cretaceus Conrad
Demospongiae - Clavulina - Clionaidae
Cliona sp.
Clione sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Milam
Coordinates: 30.9° North, 97.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.2° North, 75.7° 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 sandy claystone
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS
Collection method comments: Stephenson collection
Metadata
Also known as:Pettibone; USGS # 15538 : 14131
Database number:4449
Authorizer:M. Kosnik Enterer:M. Kosnik
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-14 13:00:00 Last modified:2017-07-28 16:27:53
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]