Also known as WPA, Work Project No. 15348, TMM 31051
Where: Fannin County, Texas (33.5° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 64.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Peroniceras haasi ammonoid zone, Ector Chalk Formation (Austin Group), Early/Lower Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)
• Ector Chalk Fm. within Austin Group. Within Peroniceras haasi Zone.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; chalk
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by WPA in 1940; reposited in the TMM
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: Anonymous. 1940. The fourth quarterly report covering the quarter ending March 31, 1940 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34755: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur | |
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Xiphactinus sp.3 Leidy 1870 | |
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