Where: Cooke County, Texas (33.5° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 59.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Denton Formation (Washita Group), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• Biofacies A; oyster biostrome at the top of the Denton Fm, Washita Group, Comanche Series

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. R. Laughbaum. 1960. A Paleoecologic Study of the Upper Denton Formation, Tarrant, Denton, and Cooke Counties, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 34(6):1183-1197 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65730: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 25.09.2006

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