Asteroidea, Adkins locality 714, Pawpaw fm, Fort Worth (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Fort Worth County, Texas (32.7° N, 97.3° W: paleocoordinates 30.1° N, 59.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Pawpaw Formation (Washita Group), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified claystone and lithified sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. B. Blake and R. Reid. 1998. Some Albian (Cretaceous) asteroids (Echinodermata) from Texas and their paleobiological implications. Journal of Paleontology 72(3):512-532 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59871: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 19.04.2006

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Taxonomic list

Asteroidea
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Fomalhautia hortensae n. gen. Adkins and Winton 1920 sea star
 Valvatida - Ophidiasteridae
Altairia wintoni n. gen. Adkins 1920 sea star
Denebia americana n. gen. Adkins 1920 sea star