Where: Bastrop County, Texas (30.1° N, 97.5° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 38.0° N, 68.3° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wills Point Formation (Midway Group), Danian to Danian (66.0 - 59.2 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
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 98735: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 20.10.2010
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Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Venericardia (Baluchicardia) bulla Dall 1903 clam |