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
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 | |
Protostegidae indet. Cope 1873 sea turtle |