Motorola site (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Tarrant County, Texas (32.8° N, 97.3° W: paleocoordinates 30.1° N, 59.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pawpaw Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• In this area, the Pawpaw Shale is of Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia) rostratum Zone age (late Albian) as this ammonite index taxon occurs in the basal part of the overlying Mainstreet Limestone and in the underlying Weno Limestone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, calcareous claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Siverson, L.S. Kelley

• Repository: SMU

Primary reference: M. Siverson, D. J. Ward, J. Lindgren and L. S. Kelley. 2013. Mid-Cretaceous Cretoxyrhina (Elasmobranchii) from Mangyshlak, Kazakhstan and Texas, USA. Alcheringa 37:87-104 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 215565: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.11.2020

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Cretoxyrhinidae
Cretoxyrhina vraconensis Zhelezko 2000 mackerel shark