Station 6, ditch on Bastrop-Travis county line: Danian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Ostracoda
- Podocopida
- Cytherideidae
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Cytheridea ruginosa n. sp.
Alexander 1934
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Travis |
| Coordinates: | 30.4° North, 97.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.3° North, 78.0° West | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Danian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Danian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 66.00000 - 61.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Midway | Formation: | Kincaid | Member: | Tehuacana Limestone |
| Stratigraphy comments: Tehuacana Limestone Mbr. of Kincaid Fm. is Early Paleocene = Danian according to: Armstrong, A., Nyborg, T., Bishop, G.A., Morales, À.O. and Vega, F.J., 2009. Decapod crustaceans from the Paleocene of Central Texas, USA. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, 26(3), pp.745-763. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | planar lamination,flute casts,glauconitic,yellow silty claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: This yellow, silty, somewhat glauconitic, and well laminated and fossiliferous clay near the top of the Kincaid formation carries an abundance of foraminifera and ostracodes. | |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:This references only lists taxa for which the locality is the type section. Other microfossils are reported to be present but not listed. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 190671 | ||
| Authorizer: | S. Cole | Enterer: | S. Cole |
| Modifier: | S. Cole | ||
| Created: | 2017-12-13 15:10:56 | Last modified: | 2018-01-25 10:48:25 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2018-12-13 15:10:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 64088. | C. I. Alexander. 1934. Ostracoda of the Midway (Eocene) of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 8(2):206-237 [S. Cole/S. Cole/G. Hunt] |