southeast branch, Hackberry Creek: Middle Cenomanian - Early/Lower Turonian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852
1 specimen
SMUSMP 61866, maxillary fragment
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Dallas
Coordinates: 32.9° North, 97.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.4° North, 63.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Middle Cenomanian - Early/Lower Turonian
Age range of interval:99.60000 - 89.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Eagle Ford Formation:Britton
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "SMUSMP 61866 comes from the lower (bentonitic) member of the Britton (units 1 and 2 of Norton, 1965)."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:106196
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:H. Street
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-03-04 09:13:51 Last modified:2011-03-15 12:43:00
Access level:the public Released:2011-03-04 09:13:51
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]