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 | |
Cimoliopterus dunni n. sp.
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