Where: Ellis County, Texas (32.5° N, 97.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 61.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Britton Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J.H. Renfro, R.F. Renfro; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: W. A. Cobban. 1987. The Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) ammonites Metengonoceras dumbli (Cragin) and M. acutum Hyatt. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1690:C1-C7 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 175718: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.01.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Metengonoceras acutum Hyatt 1903 ammonite |