Asteroidea, Ben White Roadcut, Del Rio fm, Austin, Travis County (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Travis County, Texas (30.3° N, 97.8° W: paleocoordinates 28.9° N, 63.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Del Rio Formation (Washita Group), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: D. B. Blake and R. Reid. 1998. Some Albian (Cretaceous) asteroids (Echinodermata) from Texas and their paleobiological implications. Journal of Paleontology 72(3):512-532 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59882: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 19.04.2006

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Taxonomic list

Asteroidea
 Zorocallida - Terminasteridae
Alkaidia sumralli n. gen. n. sp.
Alkaidia sumralli n. gen. n. sp. Blake and Reid 1998 sea star