5 miles southwest of Austin (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Travis County, Texas (30.2° N, 97.8° W: paleocoordinates 28.8° N, 63.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "There is some doubt whether the Del Rio formation is uppermost Albian or lower Cenomanian."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Ernest L. Lundelius

Primary reference: B. H. Slaughter and B. R. Hoover. 1963. Occurrences of ichthyosaurian remains in the Cretaceous of Texas. The Texas Journal of Science 15(3):339-343 [M. Carrano/H. Street/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 106276: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 05.03.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria -
Ichthyosauria indet. ichthyosaur
BEG-UT 40565-1