Kiest Boulevard (KIB): Late/Upper Turonian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Cantioscyllium aff. decipiens Woodward 1889
Cappetta and Case 1999
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Chiloscyllium greeni (Cappetta 1973)
Cappetta and Case 1999
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
Protolamna compressidens (Herman 1977)
Cappetta and Case 1999
original and current combination Pseudoscapanorhynchus compressidens
Cretodus semiplicatus (Agassiz 1843)
Cappetta and Case 1999
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Cretolamna appendiculata (Agassiz 1835)
Cappetta and Case 1999
recombined as Cretalamna appendiculata
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax informal sp. 1 Whitley 1939
Cappetta and Case 1999
Squalicorax informal sp. 2 Whitley 1939
Cappetta and Case 1999
Squalicorax falcatus (Agassiz 1843)
Cappetta and Case 1999
Squalicorax volgensis (Glickman 1971)
Cappetta and Case 1999
nomen dubium belonging to Squalicorax
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Aquilolamnidae
Cretomanta canadensis Case et al. 1990
Cappetta and Case 1999
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Pseudocoracidae
Pseudocorax aff. granti Cappetta and Case 1975
    = Pseudocorax duchaussoisi Guinot et al. 2013
Guinot et al. 2013
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus cf. raphiodon (Agassiz 1843)
Cappetta and Case 1999
recombined as Lamna raphiodon
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Cretoxyrhinidae
Dallasiella willistoni n. gen., n. sp. Cappetta and Case 1999
Cappetta and Case 1999
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Ptychotrygonidae
Texatrygon hooveri (McNulty and Slaughter 1972)
Cappetta and Case 1999
Ptychotrygon triangularis (Reuss 1845)
Cappetta and Case 1999
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Ischyrhiza schneideri Slaughter and Steiner 1968
Cappetta and Case 1999
Ischyrhiza texana n. sp. Cappetta and Case 1975
Sclerorhynchus informal sp. 2 Woodward 1889
Cappetta and Case 1999
Sclerorhynchus priscus n. sp. Cappetta and Case 1999
Cappetta and Case 1999
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Rhinobatos sp. Link 1790
Cappetta and Case 1999
Rhinobatos kiestensis n. sp. Cappetta and Case 1999
Cappetta and Case 1999
Rhinobatos lobatus n. sp. Cappetta and Case 1999
Cappetta and Case 1999
Chondrichthyes - Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae
Heterodontus sp. de Blainville 1816
Cappetta and Case 1999
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Ptychodontidae
Ptychodus mortoni Mantell 1836
Cappetta and Case 1999
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus informal sp. 3 Agassiz 1834
Cappetta and Case 1999
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Dallas
Coordinates: 32.7° North, 96.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.1° North, 64.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Turonian
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: At the Eagle Ford Shale-Austin Chalk contact. Given a Turonian-Coniacian boundary age by Cappetta & Case (1999) but contact placed within the upper Turonian in more recent publications.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier
Metadata
Database number:213299
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2020-08-28 22:23:45 Last modified:2020-10-18 23:52:48
Access level:the public Released:2020-08-28 22:23:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
74130. H. Cappetta and G. R. Case. 1975. Sélaciens nouveaux du Crétacé du Texas. Geobios 8:303-307 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

67600 H. Cappetta and G. R. Case. 1999. Additions aux faunes de sélaciens du Crétacé du Texas (Albien supérieur-Campanien). Palaeo Ichthyologica 9:5-111 [G. Liggett/G. Liggett/M. Clapham]
73757 G. Guinot, C. J. Underwood, H. Cappetta and D. J. Ward. 2013. Sharks (Elasmobranchii: Euselachii) from the Late Cretaceous of France and the UK. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11:589-671 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]