TMM Kincaid 26 -lithified (Paleocene of the United States)

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
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Sinum ? sp. Röding 1798 moon snail
Lacunaria lithae moon snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis), "Volutocorbis rugatus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis sp." = Athleta (Volutocorbis) Dall 1890 volute
"Volutocorbis rugatus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute
[entered as Volutocorbis rugata]
 Sorbeoconcha - Rostellariidae
Calyptraphorus sp. Conrad 1857 snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Brachiodontes sp. Swainson 1840 mussel
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral