Little Creek (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Dallas County, Texas (32.6° N, 96.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 66.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Austin Chalk Formation, Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 72.1 Ma)

• "Upper Cretaceous... lower chalk member... of the Austin Chalk formation" (which is Coniacian to Campanian)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate

• none given, but from the "lower chalk member"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Richards

• Shuler Museum of Paleontology collection

Primary reference: C. L. McNulty, Jr. and B. H. Slaughter. 1964. A protostegid turtle ramus from the Upper Cretaceous of Texas. Copeia 1964(2):454 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 90467: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 28.07.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Protostegidae
Protostegidae indet. Cope 1873 sea turtle