Sohl and Koch OFR # 639: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Actaeon sp. Oken 1815
1 specimen
replaced by Acteon
Acteon sp. - originally entered as "Acteon sp."
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trachycardium sp. Mörch 1853
1 specimen
Trachycardium sp.
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789
1 specimen
Corbula sp.
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Striarca sp. Conrad 1862
7 specimens
Striarca sp.
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Syncyclonema ? kingi Stephenson 1941
1 specimen
Syncylonema ? kingi (Stephenson) - originally entered as "Syncylonema ? kingi"
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Cubitostrea tecticosta (Gabb 1860)
7 specimens
Cubitostrea tecticosta (Gabb)
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
Nucula sp.
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites (Eubaculites) carinatus Morton 1834
18 specimens
recombined as Eubaculites carinatus
Baculites (Eubaculites) carinatus
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Hoploscaphites sp. n. sp. Nowak 1911
1 specimen
Hoploscaphites n. sp. - originally entered as "Hoploscaphites n. sp."
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Sphenodiscidae
Sphenodiscus pleurisepta (Conrad 1857)
5 specimens
Sphenodiscus pleurisepta (Conrad)
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium leve Stephenson 1923
2 specimens
Dentalium leve Stephenson
unclassified
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
Fish parts
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Navarro
Coordinates: 32.2° North, 96.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.4° North, 74.5° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
*Period:Late/Upper Cretaceous *Epoch:Late/Upper Senonian
*International age/stage:Middle - Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian Ammonoid zone: Discoscaphites conradi
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Corsicana Marl
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Haustator bilira assemblage zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified calcareous claystone
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS
Collection method comments: Sohl collection
Metadata
Also known as:Roane-2; USGS # 32176
Database number:4423
Authorizer:M. Kosnik Enterer:M. Kosnik
Modifier:J. Sessa Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-14 13:00:00 Last modified:2010-07-26 11:53:22
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-14 13:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
282. N. F. Sohl and C. F. Koch. 1984. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain. USGS Open File Report 84-687:1-282 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]

Secondary references:

29915 J. A. Sessa, T. J. Bralower, M. E. Patzkowsky, J. C. Handley, and L. C. Ivany. 2012. Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain. Paleobiology 38(2):218-239 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]