Station 9, near Lockhart, Caldwell Co., TX: Danian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Ostracoda
- Podocopida
- Trachyleberididae
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Cythereis cancellosa n. sp.
Alexander 1934
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Caldwell |
| Coordinates: | 29.9° North, 97.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.0° North, 78.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Danian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Danian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 66.00000 - 61.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Midway | Formation: | Kincaid | Member: | Tehuacana Limestone |
| Stratigraphy comments: Tehuacana Limestone Mbr. of Kincaid Fm. is Early Paleocene = Danian according to: Armstrong, A., Nyborg, T., Bishop, G.A., Morales, À.O. and Vega, F.J., 2009. Decapod crustaceans from the Paleocene of Central Texas, USA. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, 26(3), pp.745-763. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,yellow unlithified claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Typical yellowish-grey clays crop out in several slopes just below a fossiliferous zone rich in the casts of Hercoglossa sp. These clays constitute the type locality for Cythereis cancellosa n. sp. | |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some microfossils |
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:This references only lists taxa for which the locality is the type section. Other ostracode and foraminiferan taxa are almost certainly present. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 191363 | ||
| Authorizer: | S. Cole | Enterer: | S. Cole |
| Modifier: | S. Cole | ||
| Created: | 2018-01-23 15:59:48 | Last modified: | 2018-01-25 10:56:18 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2019-01-23 15:59:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 64088. | C. I. Alexander. 1934. Ostracoda of the Midway (Eocene) of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 8(2):206-237 [S. Cole/S. Cole/G. Hunt] |