Where: Falls County, Texas (31.3° N, 96.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 77.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kincaid Formation (Midway Group), Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)
• labeled Midway Group, likely Kincaid
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the TMM
• TMM Catalog #NPL 4622
Primary reference: J. A. Sessa, M. E. Patzkowsky, and T. J. Bralower. 2009. Impact of lithification on the diversity, size distribution, and recovery dynamics of marine invertebrate assemblages. Geology 37(2):115-118 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 86460: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 02.02.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Sinum ? sp. Röding 1798 moon snail
Lacunaria lithae moon snail | |
"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis), "Volutocorbis rugatus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis) Dall 1890 volute | |
Calyptraphorus sp. Conrad 1857 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Brachiodontes sp. Swainson 1840 mussel | |
Anthozoa | |
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral |