Huggins #2 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as SMU 108-2

Where: Erath County, Texas (32.0° N, 98.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.6° N, 58.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Paluxy Formation (Trinity Group), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• "basal member"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; limestone

• "fluvial meanderbelt to coastal barrier and deltaic facies"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. A. Winkler, P. A. Murry, and L. L. Jacobs. 1990. Early Cretaceous (Comanchean) vertebrates of central Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 10(1):95-116 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27606: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 13.12.2002, edited by Matthew Carrano and Roger Benson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Polyacrodontidae
"Hybodus aff. parvidens" = Polyacrodus parvidens
"Hybodus aff. parvidens" = Polyacrodus parvidens Woodward 1916 elasmobranch
 Rajiformes -
Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Thurmond 1971 guitarfish
 Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Rhinobatos sp. Link 1790 guitarfish
 Lamniformes - Eoptolamnidae
"Leptostyrax bicuspidatus" = Leptostyrax macrorhiza
"Leptostyrax bicuspidatus" = Leptostyrax macrorhiza Cope 1875 mackerel shark
Osteichthyes
 Ophiopsiformes - Ophiopsiellidae
Macrepistius sp. Cope 1894 ray-finned fish
Amphibia
 Salientia - Gobiatidae
Gobiates sp.2 Spinar and Tatarinov 1986 frog
 Caudata -
Caudata indet.1 salamander
SMU 72153
 Caudata - Prosirenidae
Prosiren elinorae Goin and Auffenberg 1958 salamander
Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Callodus coronatus Thurmond 1974
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861 bowfin