near Vanderpool (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Bandera County, Texas (29.7° N, 99.6° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 53.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• "probably of Lower Cretaceous age"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. T. Johnson in 1911; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: J. W. Gidley. 1913. Some new American pycnodont fishes. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 46(2036):445-450 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157166: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.06.2014

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
"Microdon texanus" = Pycnomicrodon texanus
"Microdon texanus" = Pycnomicrodon texanus Gidley 1913
USNM 7065 (paratype)