Also known as Astrophocaudia slaughteri type; Decatur; SMU
Where: Wise County, Texas (33.2° N, 97.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.7° N, 55.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Paluxy Formation), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)
• Uppermost part of the middle unit of the Paluxy Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by R. H. Slaughter in the 1960s
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 137532: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 17.12.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano
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Astrophocaudia slaughteri n. gen. n. sp.1
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