Sohl and Koch OFR # 731: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea mesenterica Morton 1834
1 specimen
recombined as Lopha mesenterica
Ostrea mesenterica Morton
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Cubitostrea tecticosta (Gabb 1860)
1 specimen
Cubitostrea tecticosta (Gabb)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten (Pecten) venustus
1 specimen
Pecten (Pecten?) venustus Morton
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) bubonis (Stephenson 1941)
1 specimen
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) bubonis (
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia (Anomia) argentaria Morton 1833
22 specimens
Anomia (Anomia) argentaria Morton
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Lima) sellardsi Stephenson 1941
58 specimens
Lima (Lima) sellardsi Stephenson
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Linearia sp. (Conrad 1860)
1 specimen
original and current combination Linearis
Linearia sp.
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora sp. Gabb 1869
1 specimen
Cymbophora sp.
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Buccinopsis sp. Conrad 1857
1 specimen
Buccinopsis sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Guadalupe
Coordinates: 29.8° North, 97.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.3° North, 76.9° 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 Member:upper
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Haustator bilira assemblage zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified calcareous sandstone
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
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:Staples; USGS # 10878
Database number:4494
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 12:12:29
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]