Maness Pit, north of Roxton (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Lamar County, Texas (33.6° N, 95.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 67.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Roxton Limestone Member (Gober Chalk Formation), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Ammonites from the quarry indicate a late early Campanian age (Cobban & Kennedy, 1992)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, concretionary, ferruginous, sandy limestone

• Massive and buff colored sandy limestone with ferruginous concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the TMM

Primary reference: D. Bardack and S. Teller-Marshall. 1982. First Cretaceous specimens of the beryciform fish Hoplopteryx from North America and their bearing on acanthopterygian evolution. The Pearce-Sellards Series 34:1-13 [M. Clapham/S. Hegde/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221085: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.07.2021

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Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
 Beryciformes - Hoplopterygiidae
Hoplopteryx lewesiensis