ammonites
P-27 (Brazos River K-T boundary, TX) (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Falls County, Texas (31.3° N, 97.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 77.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pisgah Member (Kincaid Formation), Danian (65.5 - 61.7 Ma)

• in foram zone P1d

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, argillaceous siltstone

• unconsolidated clay or clayey silt

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: T. A. Hansen, B. R. Farrell, and B. Upshaw, III. 1993. The first 2 million years after the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in east Texas: rate and paleoecology of the molluscan recovery. Paleobiology 19(2):251-265 [A. Miller/K. Layou] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5597: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 22.10.1999, edited by Jocelyn Sessa