South of Fossil Ridge Circle (Cretaceous of the United States)

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
 Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Betelgeusia reidi n. gen. n. sp.
Betelgeusia reidi n. gen. n. sp. Blake and Reid 1998 sea star
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Capellia mauricei n. gen. n. sp. Blake and Reid 1998 sea star
Crateraster texensis Adkins and Winton 1920 sea star
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Etyidae
"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
 Decapoda - Feldmanniidae
Feldmannia wintoni Rathbun 1935 crab