Sohl and Koch OFR # 696: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Micrabaciidae
Micrabacia sp. Milne-Edwards 1849
Micrabacia spp.
Malacostraca
Malacostraca indet. (Latreille 1802)
Crab parts
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
3 specimens
Lingula sp.
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Perissonata protexta
1 specimen
original and current combination Perrisonota
Perissonata protexta (Conrad) non G
Malletia longfrons
1 specimen
Malletia longfrons (Conrad)
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana whitfieldi
2 specimens
Nuculana whitfieldi (Gardner)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Cubitostrea tecticosta (Gabb 1860)
6 specimens
Cubitostrea tecticosta (Gabb)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Lima) reticulata Forbes 1845
2 specimens
recombined as Lima reticulata
Lima (Lima) reticulata Lyell & For
Lima (Lima) pelagica (Morton 1833)
1 specimen
Lima (Lima) pelagica (Morton)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia (Anomia) argentaria Morton 1833
6 specimens
Anomia (Anomia) argentaria Morton
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten (Pecten) venustus
2 specimens
Pecten (Pecten?) venustus Morton
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) bubonis (Stephenson 1941)
1 specimen
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) bubonis (
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Striarca webbervillensis
6 specimens
Striarca webbervillensis (Stephens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Vetericardiella webbervillensis
3 specimens
Vetericardiella webbervillensis (S
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
Crassatella sp.
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trachycardium eufaulensis (Conrad 1860)
19 specimens
Trachycardium eufaulensis (Conrad)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellinimera buboana
1 specimen
Tellinimeria buboana Stephenson - originally entered as "Tellinimeria buboana"
Tellinimera gabbi
2 specimens
Tellinimeria gabbi Gardner - originally entered as "Tellinimeria gabbi"
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora berryi
4 specimens
Cymbophora berryi (Gardner)
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caestocorbula (Parmicorbula) terramaria
4 specimens
Caesticorbula (Parmicorbula) terra - originally entered as "Caesticorbula terramaria"
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789
5 specimens
Corbula sp.
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium leve Stephenson 1923
5 specimens
Dentalium leve Stephenson
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Cylichna sp. Lovén 1846
2 specimens
Cylichna sp.
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Creonella sp. Wade 1917
2 specimens
Creonella sp.
Creonella triplicata Wade 1917
2 specimens
Creonella triplicata Wade
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Drepanocheilus sp. Meek 1864
2 specimens
Drepanochilus sp. - originally entered as "Drepanochilus sp."
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda
Neogastropoda indet. Thiele 1929
9 specimens
Neogastropods indeterminate
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Striaticostatum sparsum Sohl 1964
1 specimen
Striaticostatum sparsum Sohl
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella (Sohlitella) bilira (Stephenson 1941)
91 specimens
recombined as Haustator bilira
Turritella (Sohlitella) bilira (St
Laxispira sp. Gabb 1877
2 specimens
Laxispira sp.
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
9 specimens
Turritella sp.
Turritella (Sohlitella) trilira (Conrad 1860)
1 specimen
original and current combination Turritella trilira
Turritella (Sohlitella) trilira (C
unclassified
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
Bone material
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
Shark parts
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:70.60000 - 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 silty claystone
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
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-3; USGS # 32201
Database number:4467
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 12:09:53
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]