SMU Loc. 263 (middle Paw Paw Fm.): Late/Upper Albian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Echinodermata indet.
Klein 1754
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Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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| "fish" | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
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Chondrichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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| "shark teeth" | ||||||||||
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Malacostraca
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Malacostraca indet.
(Latreille 1802)
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| "crabs" | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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| "pelycypods" | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Engonoceratidae
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Engonoceras sp.
Neumayr and Uhlig 1881
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Lyelliceratidae
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Acanthoceras worthense
Adkins 1918
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| recombined as Stoliczkaia (Lamnayella) worthense | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Tarrant |
| Coordinates: | 32.7° North, 97.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.0° North, 59.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Cretaceous | ||
| *International age/stage: | Late/Upper Albian | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Albian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 106.20000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Paw Paw | ||||
| Local section: | SMU locality 263 | Local bed: | 5 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: from about 1.5 m of section around 4 - 5 m above base | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,brown,yellow claystone |
| Lithology description: brown to yellow fossiliferous clay with scattered sandstone partings | |
| Environment: | offshore |
| Geology comments: this is one of the clay intervals, not a sandstone "parting"ammonites "pyrite preserved"; color in this specific interval is "brown""predominantly nearshore marine" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | replaced with pyrite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: not clear if fossils were collected | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 5194 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-09-01 17:13:20 | Last modified: | 2021-11-15 15:54:06 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-09-01 17:13:20 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 312. | 5% 6320 | Y. -N. Lee. 1996. A new nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithschia) from the Paw Paw Formation (late Albian) of Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(2):232-245 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |