Sohl and Koch OFR # 686: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Vertebrata informal indet. Bone material Lamarck 1801
Bone material
Vertebrata informal indet. Shark parts Lamarck 1801
Shark parts
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bryozoa (encrusting)
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Serpula sp.
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella paravertebroides
1 specimen
Turritella paravertebroides Gardne
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
2 specimens
Turritella sp.
Turritella (Sohlitella) trilira (Conrad 1860)
3 specimens
original and current combination Turritella trilira
Turritella (Sohlitella) trilira (C
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda
Neogastropoda indet. Thiele 1929
6 specimens
Neogastropods indeterminate
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Hercorhynchus (Hercorhyncus) tippanus Conrad 1860
2 specimens
Hercorhyncus (Hercorhyncus) tippan - originally entered as "Hercorhyncus tippanus"
Drilluta sp. Wade 1916
1 specimen
Drilluta sp.
Bellifusus sp. Stephenson 1941
1 specimen
Bellifusus sp.
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana whitfieldi
2 specimens
Nuculana whitfieldi (Gardner)
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Malletia longfrons
1 specimen
Malletia longfrons (Conrad)
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula percrassa
1 specimen
Nucula percrassa Conrad
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
Nucula sp.
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella serica Conrad 1860
6 specimens
Crenella serica Conrad
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) bubonis (Stephenson 1941)
15 specimens
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) bubonis (
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Lima) acutilineata Conrad 1858
1 specimen
recombined as Limatula acutilineata
Lima (Lima) acutilineata Conrad
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia (Anomia) argentaria Morton 1833
9 specimens
Anomia (Anomia) argentaria Morton
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra costata (Say 1820)
8 specimens
original and current combination Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
Exogyra costata Say
Gryphaeostrea vomer (Morton 1828)
105 specimens
Gryphaeostrea vomer Morton
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Nemodon eufaulensis
1 specimen
Nemodon eufaulensis (Gabb) [entered as Nemodon eufaulensis]
Nemodon cf. grandis Wade 1926
3 specimens
Nemodon cf. Nemodon grandis Wade - originally entered as "Nemodon cf. grandis"
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea (Idonearca) deatvillensis
3 specimens
Cucullaea (Idonearca) deatvillensi
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Granocardium (Granocardium) sp. (Gabb 1869)
1 specimen
synonym of Trachycardium
Granocardium (Granocardium) sp.
Trachycardium eufaulensis (Conrad 1860)
6 specimens
Trachycardium eufaulensis (Conrad)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Cyclorisma parva
1 specimen
Cyclorisma parva (Gardner)
Cyprimeria alta
4 specimens
Cyprimeria alta Conrad
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora sp. Gabb 1869
3 specimens
Cymbophora sp.
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella conradi Morton 1833
1 specimen
Veniella conradi (Morton)
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caestocorbula (Caesticorbula) crassaplica Vincent 1910
28 specimens
Caesticorbula (Caesticorbula) cras - originally entered as "Caesticorbula crassaplica"
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789
5 specimens
Corbula sp.
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Nymphalucina ? linearea (Stephenson 1941)
2 specimens
recombined as Nymphalucina linearia
Nymphalucina ? linearea (Stephenso - originally entered as "Nymphalucina ? linearea"
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella vadosa Morton 1834
40 specimens
Crassatella vadosa vadosa Morton
Scambula perplana Conrad 1869
1 specimen
Scambula perplana Conrad
Demospongiae - Clavulina - Clionaidae
Cliona sp.
Clione sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Travis
Coordinates: 30.4° North, 97.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.8° North, 76.2° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
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:gray lithified siltstone
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS
Collection method comments: Sohl collection
Metadata
Also known as:Willow Ck-4; USGS # 32339
Database number:4459
Authorizer:M. Kosnik Enterer:M. Kosnik
Modifier:M. Manojlovic Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-14 13:00:00 Last modified:2016-08-08 12:09:33
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:

83571 R. Guardado, R. Lockwood, L. Wingard and P. Wagner. 2021. Phylogenetics of Crassattella. [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
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]