Paluxy Church: Late/Upper Aptian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Theria indet. Parker and Haswell 1897
Jacobs and Winkler 1998 2 specimens
Mammalia - Eutriconodonta - Triconodontidae
Astroconodon denisoni Patterson 1951
1 specimen
Reptilia - Lacertilia
Lacertilia indet. Owen 1842
Winkler et al. 1990 14 specimens
Reptilia - Teiidae
? Teiinae indet.
Winkler et al. 1990 3 specimens
Reptilia - Anguidae
? Anguidae indet. Gray 1825
Winkler et al. 1990
Reptilia - Testudines
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788
Winkler et al. 1990
Reptilia
? Atoposauridae indet. (Gervais 1871)
Winkler et al. 1990
    = Mesoeucrocodylia indet. Whetstone and Whybrow 1983
Tennant et al. 2016
cf. Bernissartia sp. Dollo 1883
Winkler et al. 1990
Reptilia - Pholidosauridae
? Pholidosauridae indet. von Zittel and Eastman 1902
Winkler et al. 1990
Reptilia - Dinosauria
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Winkler et al. 1990
"indeterminate ornithischian or saurischian"
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Winkler et al. 1990
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
cf. Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969
Winkler et al. 1990
Reptilia
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
Thurmond 1974 1 specimen
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Discoglossidae
? Discoglossidae indet. Günther 1859
Winkler et al. 1990 2 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Gobiatidae
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
Winkler et al. 1990 6 specimens
    = Gobiates sp. Spinar and Tatarinov 1986
Ročec and Nessov 1993
SMU 72156, 72168-72169 (maxillae)
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Prosirenidae
Prosiren elinorae Goin and Auffenberg 1958
Winkler et al. 1990 3 specimens
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861
Winkler et al. 1990
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832
Winkler et al. 1990
Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Enchodus sp. Agassiz 1835
Winkler et al. 1990 2 elements
"numerous specimens", but only two listed
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Palaeobalistum geiseri n. sp. Thurmond 1974
Thurmond 1974 60 specimens
SMUSMP 62093-62095, 62117-32
Coelodus sp. Haeckel
Thurmond 1974 1 specimen
SMUSMP 62268
Proscincetes texanus
Winkler et al. 1990 2 specimens
SMUSMP 62139, 62140
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes
Paramicrodon estesi n. gen., n. sp. Thurmond 1974
Thurmond 1974 30 specimens
SMUSMP 62090-62092, 62097-62101
Ophiopsiidae
? Ophiopsis sp. Agassiz 1834
Thurmond 1974
Ophiopsiformes - Ophiopsiellidae
Macrepistius sp. Cope 1894
Thurmond 1974 2 specimens
SMUSMP 62253, 62254
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes
Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (Thurmond 1971)
Winkler et al. 1990
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Polyacrodontidae
Hybodus aff. parvidens Woodward 1916
Thurmond 1971 3 specimens
recombined as Polyacrodus parvidens
SMU 62193-62195
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Hood
Coordinates: 32.3° North, 97.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.3° North, 52.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2-3
*Period:Early/Lower Cretaceous *Epoch:Gallic
*International age/stage:Aptian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Aptian
Age range of interval:119.50000 - 113.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Trinity Formation:Twin Mountains
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: fossiliferous horizon is "approximately 12 m below the Thorp Spring ('Middle') Member of the Glen Rose Formation". Also listed as Travis Peak Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:referred to by Slaughter as Paluxy
Metadata
Also known as:Paluxy; SMU Loc. 138
Database number:14408
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano, P. Mannion, R. Benson Enterer:J. Alroy, R. Benson, M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2000-05-19 00:00:00 Last modified:2022-02-11 09:02:31
Access level:the public Released:2000-05-19 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3187. B. H. Slaughter. 1969. Astroconodon, the Cretaceous Triconodont. Journal of Mammalogy 50(1):102-107 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

2008 L. L. Jacobs and D. A. Winkler. 1998. Mammals, archosaurs, and the Early to Late Cretaceous terrestrial transition in north-central Texas. In Y. Tomida, L. J. Flynn, & L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Advances in Vertebrate Paleontology and Geochronology. National Science Museum Monographs 14:253-280 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
13937ETE W. Langston. 1974. Nonmammalian Comanchean tetrapods. In B. F. Perkins (ed.), Aspects of Trinity Division Geology. A Symposium on the Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Environments, and Fauna of the Comanche Cretaceous Trinity Division (Aptian and Albian) of Texas and Northern Mexico. Geoscience and Man 8:77-102 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
18862 Z. Ročec and L. A. Nessov. 1993. Cretaceous anurans from Central Asia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 226:1-54 [E. Fara/E. Fara/M. Uhen]
59838 J. P. Tennant, P. D. Mannion, and P. Upchurch. 2016. Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177:854-936 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
34100ETE 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]
56060 J. T. Thurmond. 1974. Lower vertebrate faunas of the Trinity Division on north-central Texas. In B. F. Perkins (ed.), Aspects of Trinity Division Geology. A Symposium on the Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Environments, and Fauna of the Comanche Cretaceous Trinity Division (Aptian and Albian) of Texas and Northern Mexico. Geoscience and Man 8:103-129 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
7600 D. A. Winkler, P. A. Murry, and L. L. Jacobs. 1990. Early Cretaceous (Comanchean) vertebrates of central Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 10(1):95-116 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]