railroad switchpoint, Lambert (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Parker County, Texas (32.8° N, 98.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 51.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Travis Peak Formation (Trinity Group), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• "Comanchean", the so-called "Dinosaur sands" or the "Basement sands" below the Glen Rose Fm. in this area, which should be the Travis Peak Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. T. Hill in 1886-1887

Primary reference: R. T. Hill. 1901. Geography and geology of the Black and Grand Prairies, Texas. Twenty-First Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey. Part VII—Texas 1-666 [M. Carrano/H. Street/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52038: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.07.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur
"dinosaur bones"