Old Sprinkle Bridge Locality, Little Walnut Creek: Early/Lower Campanian, Texas
collected 1985

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Ichthyornis antecessor (Wetmore 1962)
1
synonym of Ichthyornis dispar
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Travis
Coordinates: 30.3° North, 97.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.4° North, 70.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:163 meters
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 Ammonoid zone: Delawarella delawarensis
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Austin Formation:Pflugerville
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Within Delawarella delawarensis Zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive systems tract
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:none
Disassociated major elements:all
Disassociated minor elements:none
Fragmentation:extreme
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:TMM
Collection dates:1985
Metadata
Database number:34756
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-09-22 14:11:55 Last modified:2022-12-02 09:57:52
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-22 14:11:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
7491.5% 14960D.C. Parris and J. Echols. 1992. The Fossil Bird Ichthyornis In The Cretaceous of Texas. The Texas Journal of Science 44(2):201-212 [J. Hunter/J. Rezza/J. Alroy]