Wimberley, Texas (Glen Rose Limestone) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Hays County, Texas (30.0° N, 98.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.8° N, 56.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 230 feet of dolomitic limestones, marly limestones, biolithites and evaporitic limestones underlain by Hensel Formation and overlain by Walnut Formation. Section of Glen Rose fossils sourced from was 6.5m thick.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, dolomitic limestone

• described as an "open shelf" environment, the 3rd open shelf interval in the Glen Rose Limestone.
• dolomitic limestones, marly limestones, biolithites, evaporitic limestones

Primary reference: K. Young. 1974. Lower Albian and Aptian (Cretaceous) ammonites of Texas. Geoscience and Man, Aspects of Trinity Division geology 8:175-228 [A. Miller/K. Bulinski/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52947: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Kate Bulinski on 29.08.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Douvilleiceras cf. offarcinatum
Douvilleiceras cf. offarcinatum White 1887 ammonite
BEG-21795, BEG-21796