Stephenville Park (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Paluxy River

Where: Erath County, Texas (32.2° N, 98.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.2° N, 51.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Trinity Group, Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Wieland in the 1930s

Primary reference: W. S. Adkins. 1933. The Mesozoic systems in Texas. In E. H. Sellards, W. S. Adkins, F. B. Plummer (eds.), The Geology of Texas. Volume I. Stratigraphy. The University of Texas Bulletin 3232:239-518 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52042: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.07.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.1 Batsch 1788 turtle
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur
"nearly complete dinosaur skeleton"
Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Macromesodon dumblei2
FMNH PF 1045, 1041