Savoy rock pit: Early/Lower Coniacian, Texas
collected by WPA 1940
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.
Laurenti 1768
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Anonymous 1940 | |||||||||
reptile teeth | ||||||||||
Dinosauria indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Anonymous 1940 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
"the articulated limb bones of a small dinosaur or bird" | ||||||||||
= Ichthyornis dispar
Marsh 1872
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Parris and Echols 1992 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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Plesiosauria indet.
de Blainville 1835
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Anonymous 1940 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
tooth | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Mosasauridae indet.
Gervais 1852
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Actinopteri
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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35 individuals | |||||||||
= Teleostei indet.
Müller 1846
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Ichthyodectiformes
- Ichthyodectidae
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Xiphactinus sp.
Leidy 1870
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Batoidea
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Batoidea indet.
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Anonymous 1940 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Selachii
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Selachii indet.
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Anonymous 1940 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Myalinida
- Inoceramidae
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Inoceramidae indet.
Giebel 1852
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Anonymous 1940 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Gryphaea sp.
Lamarck 1801
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Anonymous 1940 | |||||||||
Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Erymidae
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Decapoda indet.
Latreille 1802
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Anonymous 1940 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
"crabs" | ||||||||||
= Enoploclytia sp.
M'Coy 1849
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Fannin |
Coordinates: | 33.5° North, 96.4° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 34.9° North, 64.2° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Altitude: | 202 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Coniacian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Coniacian | Ammonoid zone: | Peroniceras haasi |
Age range of interval: | 89.80000 - 86.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Austin | Formation: | Ector Chalk | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Ector Chalk Fm. within Austin Group. Within Peroniceras haasi Zone. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | chalk |
Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,adpression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Spatial orientation: | random |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Articulated whole bodies: | none |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | none |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera | ||
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | TMM | ||
Collectors: | WPA | Collection dates: | 1940 |
Metadata
Also known as: | WPA, Work Project No. 15348, TMM 31051 | ||
Database number: | 34755 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2003-09-22 14:07:03 | Last modified: | 2021-07-02 13:14:09 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-09-22 14:07:03 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
71453. | Anonymous. 1940. The fourth quarterly report covering the quarter ending March 31, 1940 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
71463 | Anonymous. 1940. The fifth quarterly report covering the quarter ending June 30, 1940 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
71464 | Anonymous. 1940. The sixth quarterly report covering the quarter ending September 30, 1940 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-44 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
7491 | 5% 14960 | D.C. Parris and J. Echols. 1992. The Fossil Bird Ichthyornis In The Cretaceous of Texas. The Texas Journal of Science 44(2):201-212 [J. Hunter/J. Rezza/J. Alroy] |
71494 | E. H. Sellards. 1941. Final report covering the period from March 4, 1939 ro September 30, 1941 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project iii-85 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |