Ten Mile Creek, WalMart Section, 21.2m: Early Santonian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Dallas
Coordinates: 32.6° North, 96.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.7° North, 58.4° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Santonian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Early Santonian
Age range of interval: 85.7 - 83.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Austin Chalk Member:Bruceville
Local section:MalMart Local bed:21.2 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified marl
Secondary lithology: lithified chalk
Lithology description: marl, marly chalk
Environment:offshore indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:99933
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-11-26 22:53:32 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2010-11-26 22:53:32
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
34342. A. S. Gale, W. J. Kennedy, J. A. Lees, M. R. Petrizzo, and I. Walaszczyk. 2007. An integrated study (inoceramid bivalves, ammonites, calcareous nannofossils, planktonic foraminifera, stable carbon isotopes) of the Ten Mile Creek section, Lancaster, Dallas County, north Texas, a candidate Global Boundary Stratotype Section and point for the base of the Santonian Stage. Acta Geologica Polonica 57(2):113-160 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]