Decatur (Coelodus decaturensis type) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Wise County, Texas (33.2° N, 97.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 50.3° 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 A. Devereux; 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 157171: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.06.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Coelodus decaturensis n. sp. Gidley 1913
USNM 16