Also known as neaby association: 3 mi N of Denison, south bank of Duck Creek, 40 feet above base of Kde type-locality; in marl above Pervinquieria aff. trinodosa
Where: Grayson County, Texas (33.8° N, 96.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 56.1° W)
When: Duck Creek Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• one specimen, right propodus of cheliped (O. texanus); one right, major chela, holotype (P. cretaceous); one left dactyl, one right immobile finger, paratype (O. comancheensis);
Collected by W.S. Adkins (1142)
• University of Texas, (O. texanus); University of Texas, type, Coll. No. 211 (P. cretaceous, O. comancheensis);
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 141153: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 21.03.2013, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•P. cretaceous, O. comancheensis collected 3 mi N of Denison, on south bank of Duck Creek, in marl above Pervinquieria aff. trinodosa.
Echinoidea | |
Salenia texana Credner 1891 sea urchin | |
Malacostraca | |
Ophthalmoplax comancheensis n. sp.
Ophthalmoplax comancheensis n. sp. Rathbun 1935 crab | |
"Prehepatus cretaceous n. gen. n. sp." = Prehepatus cretaceus
"Prehepatus cretaceous n. gen. n. sp." = Prehepatus cretaceus Rathbun 1935 crab | |
"Oncopareia texanus" = Ischnodactylus texanus
"Oncopareia texanus" = Ischnodactylus texanus Rathbun 1935 decapod |