Black Gap area, 13-15 m above base [Buda Limestone] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.6° N, 102.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.4° N, 68.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Buda Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Buda Limestone, which overlies the Del Rio Fm (Cenomanian), and is correlative with the Grasyon Fm. AGE: Early Cenomanian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: 13-15 m above base of 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 Hazzard & Wilson

• COLLECTOR: R. T. Hazzard & D. Wilson. REPOSITORY: UT and WSA.. 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 88726: 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
Budaiceras elegantior
Budaiceras elegantior Lasswitz 1904 ammonite