Love Farm, S of Salado, top [Main Street Limestone] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Bell County, Texas (30.9° N, 97.5° W: paleocoordinates 29.5° N, 62.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Main Street Limestone Formation (Washita Group), Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Main Street Limestone, which overlies the Reno Fm (Cenomanian), and is overlain by the Del Rio Fm (Cenomanian). AGE: Early Cenomanian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• ENVIRONMENT: Not discussed in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Limestone. 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 88717: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.04.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ammonoids. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with relatively modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
"Stoliczkaia crotaloides" = Stoliczkaia (Lamnayella) crotaloides
"Stoliczkaia crotaloides" = Stoliczkaia (Lamnayella) crotaloides Stoliczka 1864 ammonite