Sohl and Koch OFR # 695: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
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Echinoid sp. - originally entered as "Echinoidea sp." | ||||||||||
Lingulata
- Lingulida
- Lingulidae
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Lingula sp.
Bruguiére 1797
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Lingula sp. | ||||||||||
Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Dentalium pauperculum
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Dentalium pauperculum Meek and Hay | ||||||||||
Dentalium leve
Stephenson 1923
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14 specimens | |||||||||
Dentalium leve Stephenson | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Opisthobranchia
- Cylichnidae
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Cylichna sp.
Lovén 1846
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Cylichna sp. | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Nuculana whitfieldi
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29 specimens | |||||||||
Nuculana whitfieldi (Gardner) | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Malletiidae
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Perissonata littlei
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3 specimens | |||||||||
original and current combination Perrisonota | ||||||||||
Perissonata littlei Gardner | ||||||||||
Malletia longfrons
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Malletia longfrons (Conrad) | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Striarca sp.
Conrad 1862
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Striarca sp. | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Trachycardium eufaulensis
(Conrad 1860)
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21 specimens | |||||||||
Trachycardium eufaulensis (Conrad) | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Tellinimera buboana
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Tellinimeria buboana Stephenson - originally entered as "Tellinimeria buboana" | ||||||||||
Solyma sp.
Conrad 1870
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Solyma ? sp. | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Astarte culebrensis
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Astarte? culebrensis (Stephenson) | ||||||||||
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Micrabaciidae
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Micrabacia sp.
Milne-Edwards 1849
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Micrabacia spp. | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Travis |
Coordinates: | 30.3° North, 97.5° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 35.8° North, 76.3° 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 claystone | ||
Environment: | marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Museum repositories: | USGS |
Collection method comments: Sohl collection |
Metadata
Also known as: | Littig quarry-2; USGS # 32202 | ||
Database number: | 4466 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Kosnik | Enterer: | M. Kosnik |
Modifier: | M. Manojlovic | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
Created: | 1999-08-14 13:00:00 | Last modified: | 2016-08-08 12:09:45 |
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] |