Where: Fannin County, Texas (33.5° N, 96.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 68.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Roxton Limestone Member (Gober Chalk Formation), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1965
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: D.C. Parris and J. Echols. 1992. The Fossil Bird Ichthyornis In The Cretaceous of Texas. The Texas Journal of Science 44(2):201-212 [J. Hunter/J. Rezza/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34757: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
"Ichthyornis antecessor" = Ichthyornis dispar
"Ichthyornis antecessor" = Ichthyornis dispar Marsh 1872 bird |