Glass Local Fauna (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Somervell County, Texas (32.2° N, 97.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° N, 57.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Paluxy Formation (Trinity Group), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: J. T. Thurmond. 1971. Cartilaginous fishes of the Trinity Group and related rocks (Lower Cretaceous) of north central Texas. Southeastern Geology 13:207-227 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Oreska]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99142: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Oreska on 29.10.2010, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
? Nodosauridae indet.1 Marsh 1890 ankylosaur
 Testudines - Toxochelyidae
? Toxochelyidae indet.2 Baur 1895 sea turtle
SMUSMP 62266
Chondrichthyes
 Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Onchopristis dunklei McNulty and Slaughter 1962 ray
ssp. nov. praecursor
 Rajiformes -
"Hypolophus mcnultyi n. sp." = Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi
"Hypolophus mcnultyi n. sp." = Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Thurmond 1971 guitarfish