Where: Navarro County, Texas (32.1° N, 96.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 76.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kerens Member (Wills Point Formation), Danian to Danian (66.0 - 59.2 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91842: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 21.10.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Atrina gardnerae oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
"Volutocorbis kerensensis" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis kerensensis" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute |