Brazos Point local fauna: Early/Lower Albian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes
Hypolophus mcnultyi Thurmond 1971
recombined as Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Onchopristis dunklei McNulty and Slaughter 1962
praecursor
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Archaeolamnidae
cf. Lamna arcuata Woodward 1894
synonym of Archaeolamna kopingensis
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
Lamna aff. sulcata (Geinitz 1843)
synonym of Cretodus semiplicatus
Ophiopsiformes - Ophiopsiellidae
Macrepistius sp. Cope 1894
Thurmond 1974 1 specimen
SMUSMP 62256
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Palaeobalistum rectidens Thurmond 1974
Thurmond 1974 1 specimen
SMUSMP 62142
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832
Thurmond 1974
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Bosque
Coordinates: 32.2° North, 97.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.8° North, 55.5° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Early/Lower Albian
Age range of interval:112.03000 - 109.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Fredericksburg Formation:Walnut Clay
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:99146
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Oreska, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-10-29 06:49:36 Last modified:2023-01-04 08:51:17
Access level:the public Released:2010-10-29 06:49:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

34100.ETE 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]

Secondary references:

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]