Northeast of Spofford (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Kinney County, Texas (29.2° N, 100.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 69.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Austin Chalk Formation, Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.6 Ma)

• "from the upper part of the Austin chalk"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: D. A. Russell. 1964. The Skull of American Mosasaurs. 1-386 [M. Carrano/H. Street/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 107507: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 09.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
? Globidens sp. Gilmore 1912 mosasaur
USNM 22965, posterior half of mandible