Kiest Boulevard (KIB) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Dallas County, Texas (32.7° N, 96.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 64.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• At the Eagle Ford Shale-Austin Chalk contact. Given a Turonian-Coniacian boundary age by Cappetta & Case (1999) but contact placed within the upper Turonian in more recent publications.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier

Primary reference: H. Cappetta and G. R. Case. 1975. Sélaciens nouveaux du Crétacé du Texas. Geobios 8:303-307 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213299: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.08.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Chondrichthyes
 Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Cantioscyllium aff. decipiens1
Cantioscyllium aff. decipiens1 Woodward 1889 nurse shark
 Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Chiloscyllium greeni1
Chiloscyllium greeni1 Cappetta 1973 carpet shark
 Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
Cretodus semiplicatus1, "Protolamna compressidens" = Pseudoscapanorhynchus compressidens1
Cretodus semiplicatus1 Agassiz 1843 mackerel shark
"Protolamna compressidens" = Pseudoscapanorhynchus compressidens1 Herman 1977 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Pseudocoracidae
Pseudocorax duchaussoisi2
Pseudocorax duchaussoisi2 Guinot et al. 2013 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata1
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata1 Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Cretoxyrhinidae
Dallasiella willistoni n. gen. n. sp.1
Dallasiella willistoni n. gen. n. sp.1 Cappetta and Case 1999 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Aquilolamnidae
Cretomanta canadensis1
Cretomanta canadensis1 Case et al. 1990 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax "sp. 1"1, Squalicorax "sp. 2"1, Squalicorax falcatus1, "Squalicorax volgensis" = Palaeoanacorax volgensis1
Squalicorax "sp. 1"1 Whitley 1939 crow shark
Squalicorax "sp. 2"1 Whitley 1939 crow shark
Squalicorax falcatus1 Agassiz 1843 crow shark
"Squalicorax volgensis" = Palaeoanacorax volgensis1 Glickman 1971 crow shark
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
"Scapanorhynchus cf. raphiodon" = Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon1
"Scapanorhynchus cf. raphiodon" = Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon1 Agassiz 1843 goblin shark
 Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae
Heterodontus sp.1
Heterodontus sp.1 de Blainville 1816 bullhead shark
 Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Ischyrhiza texana n. sp., Ischyrhiza schneideri1, Sclerorhynchus "sp. 2"1, Sclerorhynchus priscus n. sp.1
Ischyrhiza texana n. sp. Cappetta and Case 1975 ray
Ischyrhiza schneideri1 Slaughter and Steiner 1968 ray
Sclerorhynchus "sp. 2"1 Woodward 1889 ray
Sclerorhynchus priscus n. sp.1 Cappetta and Case 1999 ray
 Rajiformes - Ptychotrygonidae
Texatrygon hooveri1, Ptychotrygon triangularis1
Texatrygon hooveri1 McNulty and Slaughter 1972 ray
Ptychotrygon triangularis1 Reuss 1845 ray
 Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Rhinobatos sp.1, Rhinobatos lobatus n. sp.1, Rhinobatos kiestensis n. sp.1
Rhinobatos sp.1 Link 1790 guitarfish
Rhinobatos lobatus n. sp.1 Cappetta and Case 1999 guitarfish
Rhinobatos kiestensis n. sp.1 Cappetta and Case 1999 guitarfish
 Hybodontiformes - Ptychodontidae
Ptychodus mortoni1
Ptychodus mortoni1 Mantell 1836 elasmobranch
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus "sp. 3"1
Hybodus "sp. 3"1 Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
1Cappetta and Case 1999; 2Guinot et al. 2013