Lewisville Lake (Britton Fm.) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as SMU Loc. 518

Where: Denton County, Texas (33.1° N, 97.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 61.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Britton Formation (Eagle Ford Group), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• The specimen was collected in the Sciponoceras gracile ammonite zone, which lies in the upper–middle part of the Britton Formation and dates to the late Cenomanian, approximately 94 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2013

• SMU, Shuler Museum of Paleontology, Southern Methodist University

Primary reference: T. S. Myers. 2015. First North American occurrence of the toothed pteranodontoid pterosaur Cimoliopterus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25:e1014904 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135744: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Albert Garcia Selles on 06.11.2012, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
Cimoliopterus dunni n. sp. Myers 2015 pterosaur
SMU 76892, partial rostrum