Glass Mountain Area (TMM collection): Kungurian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Petalodontiformes
- Pristodontidae
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Megactenopetalus kaibabanus
David 1944
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1 specimen | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas |
Coordinates: | 30.4° North, 103.3° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 1.1° North, 33.4° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Cisuralian |
Stage: | Kungurian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 2 |
Key time interval: | Kungurian | ||
Age range of interval: | 279.30000 - 272.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: ?Cathedral Mountain or ?Road Canyon Formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original silica |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | TMM |
Metadata
Database number: | 118958 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | T. Wolfe |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2011-10-19 10:50:10 | Last modified: | 2013-12-11 16:58:34 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-10-19 10:50:10 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
38211. | C. R. Ossian. 1976. Redescription of Megactenopetalus kaibabanus David 1944 (Chondrichthyes: Petalodontidae) with Comments on Its Geographic and Stratigraphic Distribution. Journal of Paleontology 50(3):392-397 [M. Clapham/T. Wolfe] |