Forestburg (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Montague County, Texas (33.5° N, 97.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 57.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paluxy Formation (Trinity Group), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; sandstone

• based on matrix adhering to YPM-PU specimens

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Langston, Case, Zidek, White, Bigsbee in 1971, 1965-1966; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: W. Langston. 1974. Nonmammalian Comanchean tetrapods. In B. F. Perkins (ed.), Aspects of Trinity Division Geology. A Symposium on the Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Environments, and Fauna of the Comanche Cretaceous Trinity Division (Aptian and Albian) of Texas and Northern Mexico. Geoscience and Man 8:77-102 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52045: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.07.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
cf. Astrodon johnstoni Leidy 1865 sauropod
 Avetheropoda -
 Testudinata - Helochelydridae
Naomichelys sp.1 Hay 1908 turtle
YPM-PU 19327
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.1 Batsch 1788 turtle
YPM-PU uncat.
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpeton arthridion n. sp.2 Fox and Naylor 1982 tetrapod
FMNH PR 805-807, uncat.