1.5 miles northeast of Riesel: Early/Lower Campanian - Middle Campanian, Texas
collected 1930

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Mosasaurus ? missouriensis (Harlan 1834)
1 specimen
UTM (TAM) uncat. skull and mandible
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:McLennan
Coordinates: 31.5° North, 96.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.4° North, 69.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Early/Lower Campanian - Middle Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Taylor Formation:Wolfe City
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Fragmentation:extreme
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,survey of museum collection
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1930s
Collection method comments: collected by road crew
Metadata
Database number:106184
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:H. Street
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-03-04 07:41:02 Last modified:2021-02-26 09:17:05
Access level:the public Released:2011-03-04 07:41:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
35400.ETE J. T. Thurmond. 1969. Notes on mosasaurs from Texas. The Texas Journal of Science 21(1):69-80 [M. Carrano/H. Street/M. Carrano]