Bosque Farm: Turonian - Coniacian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Cretoxyrhinidae
Oxyrhina extenta Leidy 1873
synonym of Cretoxyrhina mantelli
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Clidastes sp. Cope 1868
from the top of the formation
Reptilia - Plesiosauria
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Cimoliasaurus sp. Leidy 1851
Actinopteri - Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Protosphyraena sp. Leidy 1857
Actinopteri - Ichthyodectiformes - Ichthyodectidae
Xiphactinus sp. Leidy 1870
Ichthyodectes sp. Cope 1870
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:McLennan
Coordinates: 31.5° North, 97.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.4° North, 65.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Turonian - Coniacian
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 86.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Eagle Ford
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Age based on ranges for the Eagle Ford; beds are 200 ft. thick "in the Waco section, south of South Bosque"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,blue "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "bluish and bluish-gray clays and arenaceous shales"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Abundance in sediment:few
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:107425
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:H. Street
Modifier:H. Street Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-04-08 04:56:03 Last modified:2011-04-07 15:01:09
Access level:the public Released:2011-04-08 04:56:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35761.ETE R. T. Hill. 1901. Geography and geology of the Black and Grand Prairies, Texas. Twenty-First Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey. Part VII—Texas 1-666 [M. Carrano/H. Street/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

35745ETE D. A. Russell. 1964. The Skull of American Mosasaurs. 1-386 [M. Carrano/H. Street/P. Wagner]