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 lower member within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Whitney
• COLLECTOR: F. L. Whitney. 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 88751: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Hypophylloceras cf. tanit" = Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) seresitense
"Hypophylloceras cf. tanit" = Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) seresitense Pervinquière 1907 ammonite | |
Budaiceras elegantior Lasswitz 1904 ammonite |