Also known as USGS 8299
Where: Burnet County, Texas (31.0° N, 98.1° W: paleocoordinates 28.6° N, 58.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Keys Valley Marl Formation, Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Keys Valley Marl, which overlies the Cedar Park Limeston and is overlain by the Comanche Peak Limestone. It is a lateral correlative of the Walnut Formation. AGE: Middle Albian; Oxytropidoceras salasi zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collected by Paige in 1912; reposited in the USGS
• COLLECTOR: S. Paige, 1912. REPOSITORY: Most University of Texas (UT), but also BEG.
Primary reference: K. Young. 1966. Texas Mojsisoviciziinae (Ammonoidea) and the zonation of the Fredricksburg. Geological Society of America Memoir 100:1-225 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 82879: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Venezoliceras texanum" = Oxytropidoceras (Venezoliceras), Venezoliceras acutocarinatum
"Venezoliceras texanum" = Oxytropidoceras (Venezoliceras) ammonite
Venezoliceras acutocarinatum Shumard 1853 ammonite |