Where: Travis County, Texas (30.3° N, 97.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 38.5° N, 67.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Littig Member (Kincaid Formation), Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)

• Littig Sand, labeled basal Midway Group

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• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: 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 86406: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 01.02.2009

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