SMU Loc. 331 [PROXY] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Erath County, Texas (32.2° N, 98.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.0° N, 56.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Glen Rose Limestone Formation (Trinity Group), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; argillaceous, silty limestone

• "periodic storm wave action... shallow, near-shore, protected, brackish waters"
• "ledge-forming, bedded limestones... silt and carbonate mud lenses predominate... Hummocky bedding"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. V. Rogers, II. 2003. Pachycheilosuchus trinquei, a new procoelous crocodyliform from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Glen Rose Formation of Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):128-145 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31172: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.04.2003, edited by Matthew Carrano, Philip Mannion and Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Actinopteri
 Albuliformes - Albulidae
Albulidae indet. Bleeker 1859 bonefish
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Pycnodontidae indet. Agassiz 1833
 Holostei -
Amiiformes indet. Hay 1929 bowfin
Reptilia
 Theropoda -
 Loricata -
Crocodyliformes indet.2 Hay 1930 crocodilian
SMU 74977 - egg
 Loricata - Hylaeochampsidae
Pachycheilosuchus trinquei n. gen. n. sp. Rogers 2003 crocodilian
 Testudines - Sandownidae
Leyvachelys cipadi1 Cadena 2015 turtle
Chondrichthyes
 Euselachii -
Batoidea indet. ray
"rays"
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
"Oyster beds"
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae