Glass Mountain Area (TMM collection): Kungurian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Petalodontiformes - Pristodontidae
Megactenopetalus kaibabanus David 1944
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]