Brazos Point local fauna (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Bosque County, Texas (32.2° N, 97.6° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° N, 55.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Walnut Clay Formation (Fredericksburg Group), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: J. T. Thurmond. 1971. Cartilaginous fishes of the Trinity Group and related rocks (Lower Cretaceous) of north central Texas. Southeastern Geology 13:207-227 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Oreska]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99146: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Oreska on 29.10.2010, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
 Rajiformes -
"Hypolophus mcnultyi" = Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi
"Hypolophus mcnultyi" = Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi Thurmond 1971 guitarfish
 Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Onchopristis dunklei McNulty and Slaughter 1962 ray
praecursor
 Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
"Lamna aff. sulcata" = Cretodus semiplicatus
"Lamna aff. sulcata" = Cretodus semiplicatus Agassiz 1843 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Archaeolamnidae
"cf. Lamna arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis
"cf. Lamna arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis Davis 1890 mackerel shark
Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Palaeobalistum rectidens Thurmond 1974
SMUSMP 62142
 Lepisosteiformes -
Lepidotes sp. Agassiz 1832 gar
Osteichthyes
 Ophiopsiformes - Ophiopsiellidae
Macrepistius sp. Cope 1894 ray-finned fish
SMUSMP 62256