M 414 (Paleocene of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Electridae
Conopeum damicornis Canu and Bassler 1920
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella "sp. Q" Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Turritella "sp. D" Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Turritella "sp. S" Lamarck 1799 turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Pseudoliva "sp. D" Swainson 1840 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
"? Tritiaria emoryi" = Nassarius (Tritiaria)
"? Tritiaria emoryi" = Nassarius (Tritiaria) snail
 Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
"Mangelia schotti" = Cythara (Mangelia)
"Mangelia schotti" = Cythara (Mangelia) snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Rostellariidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea (Ostrea) multilirata oyster
Ostrea (Ostrea) multilirata sabinalensis
 Arcida - Limopsidae
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Cardiida - Corbiculidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar pteleinus venus clam
 Carditida - Carditidae