Where: Milam County, Texas (30.9° N, 97.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 78.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shark River Formation (Midway Group), Early/Lower Paleocene to Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 58.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, gray, silty claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Specimens are in the private collection of Mr. Christopher Garvie.

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 86343: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 30.01.2009

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