Wise County sauropod (PROXY): Early/Lower Albian, Texas
collected 1950
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Brachiosauridae
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Pleurocoelus sp.
Marsh 1888
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1 individual | |||||||||
FMNH PR 977 | ||||||||||
= Titanosauria indet.
Bonaparte and Coria 1993
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Salgado et al. 1995 | |||||||||
"basal member" | ||||||||||
= Cedarosaurus weiskopfae
Tidwell et al. 1999
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D'Emic 2013 | |||||||||
FMNH PR 977 (a partial hind limb including an incomplete tibia and fibula, an astragalus, five metatarsals and 11 phalanges) | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Wise |
Coordinates: | 33.1° North, 97.6° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 30.6° North, 55.2° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Albian | ||
Age range of interval: | 112.03000 - 109.00000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | fine,gray poorly lithified sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "a light gray pack sand, a poorly consolidated and cemented fine-grained sandstone" | |
Environment: | crevasse splay |
Geology comments: "frequently saturated overbank deposits" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Associated major elements: | all |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Museum repositories: | FMNH | Collection dates: | 1950s |
Metadata
Database number: | 52855 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-08-24 07:12:46 | Last modified: | 2023-02-17 15:00:52 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-24 07:12:46 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13937. | ETE | 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] |
Secondary references:
42808 | M. D. D'Emic. 2013. Revision of the sauropod dinosaurs of the Lower Cretaceous Trinity Group, southern USA, with the description of a new genus. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11(6):707-726 [T. Williamson/T. Williamson/P. Mannion] | |
69370 | J. O. Farlow. 1987. A Guide to Lower Cretaceous Footprints and Tracksites of the Paluxy River Valley, Somervell County, Texas. South-Central Geological Society of America Guidebook 50-A-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
14232 | ETE | M. R. Gallup. 1989. Functional morphology of the hindfoot of the Texas sauropod Pleurocoelus sp. indet. In J. O. Farlow (ed.), Paleobiology of the Dinosaurs. Geological Society of America Special Paper 238:71-74 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
33826 | ETE | L. Salgado, J. O. Calvo, and R. A. Coria. 1995. Relaciones filogeneticas de Pleurocoelus Marsh (Sauropoda) [Phylogenetic relationships of Pleurocoelus Marsh (Sauropoda)]. 11e Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrados, Resúmenes 34 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |