Sohl and Koch OFR # 701: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea (Idonearca) deatvillensis
1 specimen
Cucullaea (Idonearca) deatvillensi
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Ostrea sp.
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella conradi Morton 1833
1 specimen
Veniella conradi (Morton)
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella vadosa Morton 1834
5 specimens
Crassatella vadosa vadosa Morton
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Travis
Coordinates: 30.3° North, 97.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.8° North, 76.4° 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:70.60000 - 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 methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS
Collection method comments: Stephenson collection
Metadata
Also known as:Webberville; USGS # 16146
Database number:4471
Authorizer:M. Kosnik Enterer:M. Kosnik
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-14 13:00:00 Last modified:2010-07-26 14:40:42
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]