Where: Travis County, Texas (30.3° N, 97.7° W: paleocoordinates 28.9° N, 63.2° 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 unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Whitney et al
• COLLECTOR: Whitney et al. 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 88748: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.04.2009, edited by Carrie Schweitzer and Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Echinoidea | |
Cottaldia botula n. sp.1
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| Cephalopoda | |
Budaiceras hyatti, Budaiceras elegantior, Budaiceras alticarinatum, "Faraudiella texana" = Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) texanum, Faraudiella roemeri
Budaiceras hyatti Shattuck 1903 ammonite
Budaiceras elegantior Lasswitz 1904 ammonite
Budaiceras alticarinatum Young 1979 ammonite
"Faraudiella texana" = Neophlycticeras (Neophlycticeras) texanum Shattuck 1903 ammonite
Faraudiella roemeri Lasswitz 1904 ammonite | |
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Mantelliceras cf. martimpreyi ammonite
Mantelliceras saxbii Sharpe 1857 ammonite | |
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Mariella wysogorskii Lasswitz 1904 ammonite | |
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