Where: Fort Worth County, Texas (32.6° N, 97.4° W: paleocoordinates 30.0° N, 59.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• 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
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 59878: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 19.04.2006, edited by Carrie Schweitzer
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
"Xanthosia pawpawensis" = Etyxanthosia pawpawensis, "Xanthosia aspera" = Steorrosia aspera
"Xanthosia pawpawensis" = Etyxanthosia pawpawensis Schweitzer Hopkins et al. 1999 crab
"Xanthosia aspera" = Steorrosia aspera Rathbun 1935 crab | |
Asteroidea | |
Alkaidia sumralli n. gen. n. sp.
Alkaidia sumralli n. gen. n. sp. Blake and Reid 1998 sea star | |
Crateraster texensis, Fomalhautia hortensae n. gen. n. sp.
Crateraster texensis Adkins and Winton 1920 sea star
Fomalhautia hortensae n. gen. n. sp. Adkins and Winton 1920 sea star | |
Altairia wintoni n. gen., Denebia americana n. gen.
Altairia wintoni n. gen. Adkins 1920 sea star
Denebia americana n. gen. Adkins 1920 sea star | |
Betelgeusia reidi n. gen. n. sp.
Betelgeusia reidi n. gen. n. sp. Blake and Reid 1998 sea star |