Stephenville Printing: Albian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Lacertilia
Lacertilia indet. Owen 1842
Reptilia - Testudines
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861
Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Enchodus sp. Agassiz 1835
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes
Paramicrodon estesi Thurmond 1974
Ophiopsiformes - Ophiopsiellidae
Macrepistius sp. Cope 1894
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes
Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (Thurmond 1971)
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Eoptolamnidae
Leptostyrax bicuspidatus Williston 1900
synonym of Leptostyrax macrorhiza
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Lonchidiidae
cf. Hylaeobatis ornata
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Erath
Coordinates: 32.2° North, 98.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.8° North, 58.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
*Period:Early/Lower Cretaceous *Epoch:Gallic
Key time interval:Albian
Age range of interval:113.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Paluxy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: from two beds separated by about 1 m
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Environment:deltaic indet.
Geology comments: "fluvial meanderbelt to coastal barrier and deltaic facies"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:SMU 17
Database number:27613
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2002-12-14 12:25:02 Last modified:2006-09-07 18:27:30
Access level:the public Released:2002-12-14 12:25:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]