Lake Waco Dam: Cenomanian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Protostegidae
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Protostega eaglefordensis n. sp.
Zangerl 1953
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| TMM No. 924 (holotype), partial skeleton | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | McLennan |
| Coordinates: | 31.6° North, 97.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.0° North, 62.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
| Key time interval: | Cenomanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Eagle Ford | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Uppermost part of the lower shale, from six to ten feet below the Flag Member of the Eagle Ford Formation." (Zangerl, 1953) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | random |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Abundance in sediment: | rare |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | TMM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 198243 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Dunhill | Enterer: | B. Allen |
| Modifier: | B. Allen | ||
| Created: | 2018-12-11 03:50:54 | Last modified: | 2018-12-11 03:51:58 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-12-11 03:50:54 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 786. | R. Zangerl. 1953. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part III. The turtles of the family Protostegidae. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(3):63-133 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen] |