Where: Falls County, Texas (31.2° N, 96.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 69.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pecan Gap Chalk Member (Taylor Formation), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Taylor Marl, Marl Chalk Member (now Pecan Gap Chalk). Ammonites indicate Middle Campanian age.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: poorly lithified chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1973. Fossil and recent Cancellothyridacea (Brachiopoda). Tohoku University, Science Reports, 2nd Series (Geology), Special Volume 6:371-390 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190365: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Cricosia filosa Conrad 1866 |