Lake Arlington (LAR) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Tarrant County, Texas (32.7° N, 97.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 62.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier

Primary reference: H. Cappetta and G. R. Case. 1999. Additions aux faunes de sélaciens du Crétacé du Texas (Albien supérieur-Campanien). Palaeo Ichthyologica 9:5-111 [G. Liggett/G. Liggett/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213297: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.08.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Scyliorhinus arlingtonensis n. sp. Cappetta and Case 1999 cat shark
 Orectolobiformes - Parascylliidae
Pararhincodon aff. lehmani Cappetta 1980 collared carpetshark