Kings Creek: Albian, Texas
collected by B. H. Slaughter
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
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? Hypolophus mcnultyi
Thurmond 1971
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Thurmond 1971 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| recombined as Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi | ||||||||||
| SMU 62217 | ||||||||||
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Ophiopsiformes
- Ophiopsiellidae
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Macrepistius sp.
Cope 1894
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Thurmond 1974 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| SMUSMP 62255 | ||||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
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Lepidotes sp.
Agassiz 1832
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Thurmond 1974 | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Pycnodontiformes
- Pycnodontidae
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Palaeobalistum rectidens
Thurmond 1974
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Thurmond 1974 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| SMUSMP 62134 | ||||||||||
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Proscincetes texanus
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Thurmond 1974 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| SMUSMP 62135 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Eutriconodonta
- Triconodontidae
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Astroconodon denisoni
Patterson 1951
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Branchiopoda
- Lioestheriidae
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? Cyzicus (Lioestheria) sp.
(Deperet and Mazeran 1912)
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Tasch 1967 | |||||||||
| spelled with current rank as Lioestheria | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Montague |
| Coordinates: | 33.5° North, 97.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.9° North, 57.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Albian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 113.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandy claystone |
| Lithology description: "sandy clay matrix" (Tasch 1967) | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collectors: | B. H. Slaughter |
| Collection method comments: SMU collection | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | King's Creek | ||
| Database number: | 14390 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Carrano | Enterer: | J. Alroy, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2016-06-06 15:03:01 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3187. | B. H. Slaughter. 1969. Astroconodon, the Cretaceous Triconodont. Journal of Mammalogy 50(1):102-107 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
| 13937 | ETE | W. Langston. 1974. Nonmammalian Comanchean tetrapods. In B. F. Perkins (ed.), Aspects of Trinity Division Geology. A Symposium on the Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Environments, and Fauna of the Comanche Cretaceous Trinity Division (Aptian and Albian) of Texas and Northern Mexico. Geoscience and Man 8:77-102 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 35509 | P. Tasch. 1967. Conchostracans from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Paluxy Formation, Texas. 41(1):256-259 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 34100 | ETE | 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] |
| 56060 | J. T. Thurmond. 1974. Lower vertebrate faunas of the Trinity Division on north-central Texas. In B. F. Perkins (ed.), Aspects of Trinity Division Geology. A Symposium on the Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Environments, and Fauna of the Comanche Cretaceous Trinity Division (Aptian and Albian) of Texas and Northern Mexico. Geoscience and Man 8:103-129 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |