Where: Sabine County, Texas (31.4° N, 93.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 36.0° N, 76.7° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Stone City Member (Crockett Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, glauconitic, argillaceous sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: See Veatch survey 1902, P. 129
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Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91119: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 05.09.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
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Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Bivalvia | |
Verticordia "sp. C" Sowerby 1844 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium "sp. C" Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Cadulus (Dischides) subcoarcuatus tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Mnestia dekayi snail | |
Rhizorus loisae snail | |
Architectonica vespertina sundial | |
"Ampullella recurva" = Ampullina
"Ampullella recurva" = Ampullina snail | |
"Ectinochilus texanum" = Rimella
"Ectinochilus texanum" = Rimella true conch | |
"Distorsio (Personella) septemdentata" = Sassia (Personella) septemdentata
"Distorsio (Personella) septemdentata" = Sassia (Personella) septemdentata Gabb 1860 triton shell | |
Galeodea planotecta Meyer and Aldrich 1886 snail | |
"Transovula (Oxycypraea) naviculae" = Prosimnia naviculae
"Transovula (Oxycypraea) naviculae" = Prosimnia naviculae Palmer 1937 snail | |
"Ficopsis texana" = Ficus
"Ficopsis texana" = Ficus fig shell | |
"Bullata semenoides" = Closia (Bullata), Lapparia mooreana
"Bullata semenoides" = Closia (Bullata) volute
Lapparia mooreana volute | |
Harpa sp. Röding 1798 snail | |
Marginella (Dentimargo) constrictoides margin shell | |
Pterynotus (Pterynotus) sabinola Palmer 1960 mustached bat
Hexaplex (Hexaplex) silvaticus Palmer 1937 murex snail | |
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Levifusus spp. Conrad 1865 snail
Levifusus mortoniopsis snail | |
Metula gracilis Johnson 1899 true whelk
Buccitriton texanum true whelk | |
Raphitoma rebecella snail
Raphitoma sabinia snail | |
Michela trabeatoides Harris 1895 turrid | |
Hastula sabina auger snail | |
Uromitra brazosana ribbed mitre | |
"Turritella rina" = Haustator rina
"Turritella rina" = Haustator rina turret shell | |
Acirsa (Hemiacirsa) whitneyi Palmer 1937 wentletrap | |
Tiburnus texanus snail |