Sohl and Koch OFR # 757: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Crinoidae indet.
Crinoid columnal
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
Echinoid sp. - originally entered as "Echinoidea sp."
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Nautilidae
Eutrephoceras sp. Hyatt 1894
1 specimen
Eutrephoceras sp.
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella serica Conrad 1860
36 specimens
Crenella serica Conrad
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea mesenterica Morton 1834
2 specimens
recombined as Lopha mesenterica
Ostrea mesenterica Morton
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaeostrea vomer (Morton 1828)
1 specimen
Gryphaeostrea vomer Morton
Pycnodonte vesicularis (Lamarck 1806)
3 specimens
recombined as Pycnodonta vesicularis
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck
Exogyra costata (Say 1820)
27 specimens
original and current combination Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
Exogyra costata Say
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Lima) acutilineata Conrad 1858
1 specimen
recombined as Limatula acutilineata
Lima (Lima) acutilineata Conrad
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis
9 specimens
Plicatula (Plicatula) mullicaensis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) sp. Meek 1864
1 specimen
Camptonectes (Comptonectes) sp.
Pecten (Pecten) venustus
1 specimen
Pecten (Pecten?) venustus Morton
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Megatrigoniidae
Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) castrovillensis
38 specimens
Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) cas
Bivalvia - Myoida
Eufistulina ripleyana
1 specimen
original and current combination Eufistulana
Eufistulana ripleyana (Stephenson) - originally entered as "Eufistulana ripleyana"
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789
1 specimen
Corbula sp.
Caestocorbula (Caesticorbula) crassaplica Vincent 1910
5 specimens
Caesticorbula (Caesticorbula) cras - originally entered as "Caesticorbula crassaplica"
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Linearia pectinis
1 specimen
original and current combination Linearis
Linearia pectinis Stephenson
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte culebrensis
1 specimen
Astarte? culebrensis (Stephenson)
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella vadosa Morton 1834
1 specimen
Crassatella vadosa vadosa Morton
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Vetericardiella sp. Chavan 1969
1 specimen
Vetericardiella sp.
Vetericardiella webbervillensis
1 specimen
Vetericardiella webbervillensis (S
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Striaticostatum bexarense (Stephenson 1941)
1 specimen
Striaticostatum bexarense (Stephen
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Gyrodes petrosus
1 specimen
Gyrodes petrosus (Morton)
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Xenophora leprosa (Morton 1834)
1 specimen
recombined as Xenophora (Endoptygma) leprosa
Xenophora leprosa (Morton)
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella vertebroides Morton 1834
1 specimen
Turritella vertebroides Morton
Gastropoda - Eucyclidae
Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus) americanus
2 specimens
Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus) amer
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bryozoa (encrusting)
Polychaeta - Serpulimorpha
Hamulus onyx Morton 1834
Hamulus onyx Morton
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Serpula sp.
Demospongiae - Clavulina - Clionaidae
Cliona sp.
Clione sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Bexar
Coordinates: 29.4° North, 98.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.1° North, 77.7° 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 sandy claystone
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:W San Antonio; USGS # 16408 : 16353
Database number:4511
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 12:14:34
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]