Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.1° N, 97.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 78.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kincaid Formation (Midway Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• formation-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 91893: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 22.10.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Tornatellaea leai snail | |
Odostomia "sp. B" Fleming 1817 snail | |
Architectonica planiformis sundial
Architectonica phoenicea sundial | |
Solariorbis proius snail | |
Calyptraea spp. Lamarck 1799 slipper shell | |
Turritella hilli turret shell | |
Orthosurcula francescae ribbed mitre
Orthosurcula adeona ribbed mitre | |
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis texanus" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
? Polinices julianna moon snail
Euspira perspecta moon snail
"Natica (Naticarius) reversa" = Naticarius moon snail | |
Epitonium "sp. B" Bolten 1798 wentletrap
Scalina dolosa wentletrap | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula (Nucula) mediavia Harris 1896 nut clam | |
Amusium (Propeamussium) alabamense Aldrich 1886 mud scallop | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium mediaviense tusk shell |