Where: Medina County, Texas (29.4° N, 99.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 72.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Baculites maclearni ammonoid zone, Anacacho Limestone Formation, Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Anacacho Limestone or lower part of Taylor Marl. Swezey and Sullivan (2004) correlate this section to the Baculites maclearni zone, which is middle Campanian in Gradstein et al., 2004.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78169: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Salenia hondoensis n. sp.
Salenia hondoensis n. sp. Cooke 1953 sea urchin | |
Cardiaster leonensis Stephenson 1941 sea urchin |