Where: Limestone County, Texas (31.5° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° N, 76.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kincaid Formation (Midway Group), Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, sandy, calcareous marl
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 86416: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 02.02.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella aff. alabamiensis" = Mesalia alabamiensis
"Turritella aff. alabamiensis" = Mesalia alabamiensis De Gregorio 1890 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam |