Where: Uvalde County, Texas (29.2° N, 99.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 80.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tehuacana Member (Kincaid Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 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 92246: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 04.11.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata | |
Conopeum damicornis Canu and Bassler 1920 | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella "sp. Q" Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Turritella "sp. D" Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Turritella "sp. S" Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Pseudoliva "sp. D" Swainson 1840 true whelk | |
"? Tritiaria emoryi" = Nassarius (Tritiaria)
"? Tritiaria emoryi" = Nassarius (Tritiaria) snail | |
"Mangelia schotti" = Cythara (Mangelia)
"Mangelia schotti" = Cythara (Mangelia) snail | |
Calyptraphorus aldrichi snail | |
Euspira perspecta moon snail | |
Serpulorbis gonioides worm shell | |
Bivalvia | |
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Limopsis quihi clam | |
Cucullaea texana clam | |
Corbicula texana clam | |
Pitar pteleinus venus clam | |
Venericardia (Venericor) smithii Aldrich 1894 clam |