Where: Tarrant County, Texas (32.5° N, 97.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.7° N, 62.7° W)
When: Britton Formation (Eagle Ford Group), Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 89.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; burrowed, concretionary, red, sandy shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace, concretion, original aragonite, original calcite, replaced with calcite, replaced with other
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• - [ ] carapace with chelipeds and P2, Britton Formation, Eagle Ford Group, Cenomanian-Turonian, Dallas County, Texas;
Primary reference: G. A. Bishop, N.A. Brannen, L.E. Hill, J.P. Meyer, A.J. Pike and C. Sampson. 1992. The Britton Notopocorystes Assemblage: An Eagle Ford Decapod Assemblage from the Cretaceous of North-Central Texas. Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies 102:413-423 [M. Clapham/J. Fearon]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 234310: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by J Fearon on 27.03.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Malacostraca | |
Linuparus grimmeri Stenzel 1945 spiny lobster
Linuparus watkinsi Stenzel 1945 spiny lobster | |
"Upogebia rhacheochir" = Meticonaxius rhacheochir
"Upogebia rhacheochir" = Meticonaxius rhacheochir Stenzel 1945 decapod | |
Homarus brittonestris Stenzel 1945 clawed lobster
Homarus davisi Stenzel 1945 clawed lobster | |
Cenomanocarcinus vanstraeleni Stenzel 1945 crab | |
Ferroranina dichrous Stenzel 1945 crab | |
"Homolopsis pikeae" = Latheticocarcinus pikeae
"Homolopsis pikeae" = Latheticocarcinus pikeae Bishop and Brannen 1992 crab | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Desmoceras scotti" = Moremanoceras scotti
"Desmoceras scotti" = Moremanoceras scotti Moreman 1942 ammonite | |
Placenticeras cumminsi Cragin 1893 ammonite | |
Metoicoceras geslinianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
"Worthoceras vermiculus" = Worthoceras vermiculum
"Worthoceras vermiculus" = Worthoceras vermiculum Shumard 1860 ammonite | |
Allocrioceras annulatum ammonite | |
Sciponoceras gracile Shumard 1860 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Inoceramus spp. Sowerby 1814 clam |