Asteroidea, Reid locality 6, Ellis Ranch Road, Pawpaw fm, Fort Worth (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Fort Worth County, Texas (32.7° N, 97.3° W: paleocoordinates 30.0° N, 59.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified mudstone and lithified, sandy wackestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: mechanical,

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 59875: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 19.04.2006, edited by Carrie Schweitzer

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Etyidae
"Xanthosia aspera" = Steorrosia aspera
"Xanthosia aspera" = Steorrosia aspera Rathbun 1935 crab
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Arctostreidae
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Asteroidea
 Zorocallida - Terminasteridae
Alkaidia sumralli n. gen. n. sp.
Alkaidia sumralli n. gen. n. sp. Blake and Reid 1998 sea star
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Goniasteridae indet. Forbes 1841 sea star
Crateraster texensis Adkins and Winton 1920 sea star
 Valvatida - Ophidiasteridae
Altairia wintoni n. gen. Adkins 1920 sea star
Denebia americana n. gen. Adkins 1920 sea star
 Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Betelgeusia reidi n. gen. n. sp.
Betelgeusia reidi n. gen. n. sp. Blake and Reid 1998 sea star