Where: Howard County, Arkansas (33.9° N, 93.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 58.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tokio Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; pyritic claystone
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), sieve,
Primary reference: J. G. Pittman and G. L. Bell. 2002. Cretaceous vertebrates of SE Oklahoma, SW Arkansas and NE Texas. In J. G. Pittman, G. L. Bell, R. L. Cifelli, & W. Langston (eds.), Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 62nd Annual Meeting. Field Trip Guidebook. Field Trip 2. Cretaceous of Southeast Oklahoma, Southwest Arkansas and Northeast Texas. Oklahoma Geological Survey Open-File Report 10-2002:15-31 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 223862: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.12.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Enchodus ? petrosus Cope 1874 | |
Belonostomus sp. Agassiz 1834 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark | |
Squalicorax falcatus Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
Selachii indet. shark | |
Malacostraca | |
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Sedentaria | |
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 |