Walnut Creek A local fauna (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Wise County, Texas (33.2° N, 97.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.6° N, 57.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle 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 99145: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Oreska on 29.10.2010, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
"Hybodus butleri n. sp." = Meristodonoides butleri
"Hybodus butleri n. sp." = Meristodonoides butleri Thurmond 1971 elasmobranch
 Rajiformes -
"Hypolophus mcnultyi" = Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi
"Hypolophus mcnultyi" = Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Thurmond 1971 guitarfish
Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
? Callodus coronatus Thurmond 1974
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