Wise County sauropod (PROXY): Early/Lower Albian, Texas
collected 1950

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Brachiosauridae
Pleurocoelus sp. Marsh 1888
1 individual
FMNH PR 977
    = Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993
Salgado et al. 1995
"basal member"
    = Cedarosaurus weiskopfae Tidwell et al. 1999
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
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Trinity Formation:Paluxy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
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]
14232ETE 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]
33826ETE 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]