Deltaichthys albuloides holotype locality: Cenomanian - Turonian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Albuliformes - Albulidae
Deltaichthys albuloides Fielitz and Bardack 1992
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Dallas
Coordinates: 32.7° North, 97.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.8° North, 62.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Cenomanian - Turonian
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Eagle Ford
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical,survey of museum collection
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (OMNH 1-0-283)
Metadata
Database number:134382
Authorizer:S. Peters Enterer:S. McMullen
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:freshwater,vertebrate
Created:2012-10-08 11:50:16 Last modified:2023-01-04 11:52:35
Access level:the public Released:2012-10-08 11:50:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

43214. C. Fielitz and D. Bardack. 1992. Deltaichthys albuloides, a new and unusually preserved albulid (Teleostei) probably from the Cretaceous of Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12(12):133-141 [S. Peters/S. McMullen/M. Carrano]