Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.1° N, 97.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 37.6° N, 68.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wills Point Formation (Midway Group), Early/Lower Paleocene to Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 58.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified lithology not reported

Collection methods: TAMU specimens are housed in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Texas A&M university.

Primary reference: J. A. Sessa, M. E. Patzkowsky, and T. J. Bralower. 2009. Impact of lithification on the diversity, size distribution, and recovery dynamics of marine invertebrate assemblages. Geology 37(2):115-118 [M. Patzkowsky/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86270: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 27.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)