SMU Loc. 241: Late/Upper Albian, Texas
collected by J. Maurice 1989
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Texigryphea washitaensis
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Suarodon sp.
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or Saurocephalus sp. | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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Reptilia
- Nodosauridae
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Nodosauridae indet.
Marsh 1890
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= ? Texasetes sp.
Coombs 1995
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Pereda Suberbiola and Barrett 1999 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
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Pseudohypolophus sp.
Cappetta and Case 1975
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Chondrichthyes
- Orectolobiformes
- Parascylliidae
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Paraisurus macrorhiza
Cappetta 1980
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Eoptolamnidae
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Leptostyrax macrorhiza
(Cope 1875)
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Anacoracidae
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Squalicorax sp.
Whitley 1939
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Cretolamna appendiculata
(Agassiz 1835)
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recombined as Cretalamna appendiculata | ||||||||||
Crinoidea
- Roveacrinida
- Roveacrinidae
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Poecilocrinus dispandus
Peck 1943
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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
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Asteroidea
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Asteroidea indet.
de Blainville 1830
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Lopha quadriplicata
(Kues 1997)
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recombined as Peilinia quadriplicata | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Neitheidae
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Neithea sp.
Drouet 1824
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Limidae
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Lima sp.
Bruguière 1797
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Stearnsia robbinsi
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Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Trigoniidae
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Trigonia ? clavigera
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Engonoceratidae
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Engonoceras sp.
Neumayr and Uhlig 1881
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Palinuridae
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Linuparus adkinsi
Rathbun 1935
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Raninidae
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Raninella sp.
Milne-Edwards 1862
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Etyidae
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Xanthosia wintoni n. sp.
Rathbun 1935
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Xanthosia aspera
Rathbun 1935
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recombined as Steorrosia aspera | ||||||||||
see common names |
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: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Albian | ||
Age range of interval: | 106.20000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | brown silty mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Calcareous nodules, vertical sand/caliche-filled cracks; fine shell hash lenses; medium to dar brown; scattered Crassostrea. | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Glacial or sequence phase: | regressive |
Geology comments: Nearshore marine facies, including deltaic or estuarine |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | random |
Articulated whole bodies: | none |
Encrustation: | occasional |
Feeding/predation traces: | punctures |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),mechanical,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Collectors: | J. Maurice | Collection dates: | 1989 |
Collection method comments: Discovered by Johnny Maurice in 1989 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Motorola | ||
Database number: | 52126 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire, M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | marine invertebrate,vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-07-26 12:11:59 | Last modified: | 2023-01-04 08:58:45 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-07-26 12:11:59 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13995. | ETE | L. L. Jacobs, D. A. Winkler, P. A. Murry and J. M. Maurice. 1994. A nodosaurid scuteling from the Texas shore of the Western Interior Seaway. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies 337-346 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/P. Wagner] |
Secondary references:
31495 | X. Pereda Suberbiola and P. M. Barrett. 1999. A systematic review of ankylosaurian dinosaur remains from the Albian-Cenomanian of England. In D. M. Unwin (ed.), Cretaceous Fossil Vertebrates. Special Papers in Palaeontology 60:177-208 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano] |