Medlin (Modlin's) Cemetery (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Denton County, Texas (33.0° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 61.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Grayson Marl Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Lower lower Cenomanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy, W. A. Cobban, J. M. Hancock and W. S. Gale. 2005. Upper Albian and Lower Cenomanian ammonites from the Main Street Limestone, Grayson Marl and Del Rio Clay in northeast Texas. Cretaceous Research 26:349-428 [L. Bulot/L. Bulot/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175110: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.12.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
Stoliczkaia (Lamnayella) texana Cragin 1893 ammonite
Stoliczkaia (Stoliczkaia) conlini n. sp. Kennedy 2005 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Sharpeiceras schlueteri Hyatt 1903 ammonite
Graysonites wacoense Böse 1928 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Engonoceratidae
Metengonoceras bravoense Böse 1928 ammonite
Engonoceras retardum Hyatt 1903 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
"Mariella (Wintonia) brazoensis" = Mariella (Plesioturrilites) brazoensis, "Mariella (Wintonia) bosquensis" = Mariella (Plesioturrilites) bosquensis, "Mariella (Wintonia) rhacioformis" = Mariella (Plesioturrilites) rhacioformis
"Mariella (Wintonia) brazoensis" = Mariella (Plesioturrilites) brazoensis Roemer 1849 ammonite
"Mariella (Wintonia) bosquensis" = Mariella (Plesioturrilites) bosquensis Adkins 1920 ammonite
"Mariella (Wintonia) rhacioformis" = Mariella (Plesioturrilites) rhacioformis Clark 1965 ammonite