TMM 43032, Paluxy River #D1 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as 3rd Crossing, Glen Rose

Where: Somervell County, Texas (32.3° N, 97.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.9° N, 55.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Glen Rose Limestone Formation), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• Near Corbula bed

•The Glen Rose formation spans through four ammonite zones with ages between latest Aptian and early Albian. Young 1974 suggested the Kasanskyella spathi ammonite zone is latest aptian, the Hypacanthoplites cragini zone is earliest Albian, the Douvilleiceras mammillatum and Hypacanthoplites comalensis zones are early Albian and may extend into the middle Albian. The Salenia texana Zone and Corbula bed fall within the mammillatum zone. The benthic foraminifera Orbitolina texana also suggests a late aptian - early albian age and is found in basal levels and in the upper member (Stricklin et al. 1971). Scott et al. (2007) estimated that the age of the Glen Rose Formation ranges from 113.3 to 108.0 Ma.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by G. Adams & E. Shuler in 1908; reposited in the TMM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: E. W. Shuler. 1917. Dinosaur tracks in the Glen Rose Limestone near Glen Rose, Texas. The American Journal of Science, series 4 44(23):294-298 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52545: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 10.08.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
"? Eubrontes titanopelopatidus n. sp." = Megalosauropus titanopelobatidus
"? Eubrontes titanopelopatidus n. sp." = Megalosauropus titanopelobatidus Shuler 1917 theropod