Where: Tarrant County, Texas (32.8° N, 97.3° W: paleocoordinates 30.1° N, 59.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-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; poorly lithified, gray mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Robert Reid
• Repository: Southern Methodist University
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 59873: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 19.04.2006, edited by Carrie Schweitzer
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Asteroidea | |
Betelgeusia reidi n. gen. n. sp.
Betelgeusia reidi n. gen. n. sp. Blake and Reid 1998 sea star | |
Capellia mauricei n. gen. n. sp., Crateraster texensis
Capellia mauricei n. gen. n. sp. Blake and Reid 1998 sea star
Crateraster texensis Adkins and Winton 1920 sea star | |
Malacostraca | |
"Xanthosia reidi" = Etyxanthosia reidi, "Xanthosia pawpawensis" = Etyxanthosia pawpawensis
"Xanthosia reidi" = Etyxanthosia reidi Schweitzer Hopkins et al. 1999 crab
"Xanthosia pawpawensis" = Etyxanthosia pawpawensis Schweitzer Hopkins et al. 1999 crab | |
Feldmannia wintoni Rathbun 1935 crab |