Where: Wise County, Texas (33.1° N, 97.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.6° N, 55.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Paluxy Formation (Trinity Group), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; poorly lithified, fine-grained, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in the 1950s; reposited in the FMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: W. Langston. 1974. Nonmammalian Comanchean tetrapods. In B. F. Perkins (ed.), Aspects of Trinity Division Geology. A Symposium on the Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Environments, and Fauna of the Comanche Cretaceous Trinity Division (Aptian and Albian) of Texas and Northern Mexico. Geoscience and Man 8:77-102 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 52855: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.08.2005, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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