USGS M8702
Bezar County, Texas29.44445, −98.67361
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Minerals on record here
1 mineralRecorded here: fossil.
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About USGS M8702
USGS M8702 is a fossil collection site in Bezar, Texas, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Pecan Gap Chalk, dated to the Middle Campanian (83.6–72.2 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as marine indet. Documented finds include Camptonectes, Crassatella hodgei, Cymella, Granocardium dumosum, Cataceramus balticus, Legumen ellipticum.
Geologic setting
- Formation
- Pecan Gap Chalk
- Geologic interval
- Middle Campanian
- Age
- 83.6–72.2 Ma
- Depositional environment
- marine indet.
- Recorded occurrences
- 14
Locality notes
pipeline excavation on Road 1957 0.4 km west of junction road 151
Fossils found here
Camptonectes
Bivalvia · Pectinidae
Crassatella hodgei
Bivalvia · Crassatellidae
Cymella
Bivalvia · Poromyidae
Granocardium dumosum
Bivalvia · Cardiidae
Cataceramus balticus
Bivalvia · Inoceramidae
Legumen ellipticum
Bivalvia · Veneridae
Lucina parva
Bivalvia · Lucinidae
Neithea quinquecostata
Bivalvia · Neitheidae
Nemodon
Bivalvia · Parallelodontidae
Pterotrigonia
Bivalvia · Megatrigoniidae
Baculites
Cephalopoda · Baculitidae
Arrhoges
Gastropoda · Aporrhaidae
Naticidae
Gastropoda · Naticidae
Turritella quadrilira
Gastropoda · Turritellidae
Records and references
Data: Paleobiology Database collection 3612 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record
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Questions about USGS M8702
Can you collect at USGS M8702?
It depends on who owns the land and whether a mining claim covers it. BLM land usually allows hand collecting for personal use, national parks allow none, and private land needs the owner’s permission. Pro members see the owner and any claims at this spot.
What minerals are found at USGS M8702?
Fossil.
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Source: Paleobiology Database.