Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.9° N, 102.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.5° N, 67.7° 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: From 17-18 m above base of formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Perkins
• COLLECTOR: B. F. Perkins. 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 88729: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Faraudiella texana" = Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) texanum
"Faraudiella texana" = Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) texanum Shattuck 1903 ammonite |