Denton Creek (TMM) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Wise County, Texas (33.2° N, 97.4° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 55.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paluxy Formation (Trinity Group), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

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 199751: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.02.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Tenontosaurus sp. Ostrom 1970 ornithopod
TMM 41506 (now DMNH 8386)