Wildcat Branch, Village Creek, south of Handley: Late Albian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia) rostratum (Sowerby 1817)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Tarrant
Coordinates: 32.7° North, 97.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.0° North, 59.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Albian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 4
Key time interval: Late Albian Ammonoid zone:  Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia) rostratum
Age range of interval: 106.2 - 100.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Washita Formation:Main Street Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Upper upper Albian for M. rostratum, but upper Upper Albian or lower Lower Cenomanian for M. brazoensis.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:175191
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-12-04 21:10:35 Last modified:2023-01-04 09:04:58
Access level:the public Released:2015-12-04 21:10:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
36042. W. J. Kennedy, W. A. Cobban, J. M. Hancock and W. S. Gale. 2005. Upper Albian and Lower Cenomanian ammonites from the Main Street Limestone, Grayson Marl and Del Rio Clay in northeast Texas. Cretaceous Research 26:349-428 [L. Bulot/L. Bulot/M. Clapham]