Garvin Church local fauna (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Wise County, Texas (33.1° N, 97.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.5° N, 57.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Paluxy Formation), 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 99144: 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
 Testudinata - Helochelydridae
Naomichelys sp. Hay 1908 turtle
SMUSMP 62262
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes -
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832 gar
 Anguilliformes -
Casierius heckeli eel
SMUSMP 62115
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Macromesodon dumblei
SMUSMP 62104
Palaeobalistum geiseri Thurmond 1974
SMUSMP 62140
 Pycnodontiformes -
Paramicrodon estesi Thurmond 1974
SMUSMP 62143
Chondrichthyes
 Rajiformes -
"Hypolophus mcnultyi" = Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi
"Hypolophus mcnultyi" = Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Thurmond 1971 guitarfish
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch