Kings Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as King's Creek

Where: Montague County, Texas (33.5° N, 97.5° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 57.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Paluxy Formation), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• said to be Albian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandy claystone

• "sandy clay matrix" (Tasch 1967)

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by B. H. Slaughter

Collection methods: bulk,

• SMU collection

Primary reference: B. H. Slaughter. 1969. Astroconodon, the Cretaceous Triconodont. Journal of Mammalogy 50(1):102-107 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 14390: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca - Lioestheriidae
"? Cyzicus (Lioestheria) sp." = Lioestheria1
"? Cyzicus (Lioestheria) sp." = Lioestheria1 Deperet and Mazeran 1912 clam shrimp
Chondrichthyes
 Rajiformes -
"? Hypolophus mcnultyi" = Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi2
"? Hypolophus mcnultyi" = Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi2 Thurmond 1971 guitarfish
SMU 62217
Osteichthyes
 Ophiopsiformes - Ophiopsiellidae
Macrepistius sp.3 Cope 1894 ray-finned fish
SMUSMP 62255
Mammalia
 Marsupialia - Herpetotheriidae
Astroconodon denisoni Patterson 1951 marsupial
Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Palaeobalistum rectidens3 Thurmond 1974
SMUSMP 62134
Proscincetes texanus3
SMUSMP 62135
 Lepisosteiformes -
Lepidotes sp.3 Agassiz 1832 gar