TMM 43029, Paluxy River #B1 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as 4th Crossing

Where: Somervell County, Texas (32.2° N, 97.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.9° N, 55.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Near Corbula bed

•The Glen Rose formation spans through four ammonite zones with ages between latest Aptian and early Albian. Young 1974 suggested the Kasanskyella spathi ammonite zone is latest aptian, the Hypacanthoplites cragini zone is earliest Albian, the Douvilleiceras mammillatum and Hypacanthoplites comalensis zones are early Albian and may extend into the middle Albian. The Salenia texana Zone and Corbula bed fall within the mammillatum zone. The benthic foraminifera Orbitolina texana also suggests a late aptian - early albian age and is found in basal levels and in the upper member (Stricklin et al. 1971). Scott et al. (2007) estimated that the age of the Glen Rose Formation ranges from 113.3 to 108.0 Ma.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified, fine-grained limestone

• "a hard, fine-grained limestone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by E. Shuler, J. Boon, R. Hill, L/ Kelsey in 1934, 1936; reposited in the TMM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: E. W. Shuler. 1935. Dinosaur track mounted in the band stand at Glen Rose, Texas. Field & Laboratory 4(1):9-13 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52540: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 10.08.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.2 dinosaur
2 other types mentioned
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
? Eubrontes glenrosensis n. sp.1 Shuler 1935 theropod