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; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
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 86400: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 01.02.2009
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Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Venericardia bulla" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) bulla
"Venericardia bulla" = Venericardia (Baluchicardia) bulla Dall 1903 clam |