Belton [Denton Fm] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Bell County, Texas (31.0° N, 97.4° W: paleocoordinates 28.4° N, 60.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Denton Formation, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Denton Fm, which overlies the Fort Worth Fm (Albian, and is overlain by the Weno Fm (Albian-Cenomanian). AGE: Late Albian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

• ENVIRONMENT: Not discussed in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Adkins

• COLLECTOR: W. S. Adkins. REPOSITORY: UT and WSA.

Primary reference: K. Young. 1979. Lower Cenomanian and Late Albian (Cretaceous) ammonites, especially Lyelliceridae, or Texas and Mexico. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 26:1-99 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88716: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ammonoids. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with relatively modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
"Faraudiella cf. rhamnonota" = Neophlycticeras blancheti
"Faraudiella cf. rhamnonota" = Neophlycticeras blancheti Pictet and Campiche 1859 ammonite