Where: Robertson County, Texas (30.9° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.2° N, 87.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wheelock Member (Cook Mountain Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 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 99026: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 25.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
? Surculoma (? Volutapex) kellogii, Eucheilodon reticulata, Hesperiturris nodocarinatus, Awateria retifera
Eucheilodon reticulata turrid
Hesperiturris nodocarinatus Gabb 1860 turrid
Awateria retifera Gabb 1860 turrid | |
Odontopolys compsorhytis murex snail | |
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Levifusus mortoniopsis snail | |
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Cephalopoda | |
Belosaepia ungula Yancey et al. 2010 | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus (Dischides) subcoarcuatus tusk shell | |
"Dentalium (Antalis) minutistriatum" = Dentalium minutistriatum
"Dentalium (Antalis) minutistriatum" = Dentalium minutistriatum Gabb 1850 tusk shell |