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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Cretoxyrhina vraconensis Zhelezko 2000 mackerel shark |