SMU Loc. 241: Late Albian, Texas
collected by J. Maurice 1989

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palinuridae
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Etyidae
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae
Raninella sp. Milne-Edwards 1862
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Engonoceratidae
unclassified
or Saurocephalus sp.
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Neithea sp. Drouet 1824
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Crinoidea - Roveacrinida - Roveacrinidae
Asteroidea
Echinoidea
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Eoptolamnidae
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Paraisuridae
Paraisurus macrorhiza (Pictet and Campiche 1858)
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes
Reptilia - Nodosauridae
Pereda Suberbiola and Barrett 1999
Reptilia - Testudines
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Tarrant
Coordinates: 32.7° North, 97.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.2° North, 53.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Albian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 4
Key time interval: Late Albian
Age range of interval: 106.3 - 100.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Washita Formation:Pawpaw
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown silty mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Calcareous nodules, vertical sand/caliche-filled cracks; fine shell hash lenses; medium to dar brown; scattered Crassostrea.
Environment:marine indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:regressive
Geology comments: Nearshore marine facies, including deltaic or estuarine
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:random
Articulated whole bodies:none
Encrustation:occasional
Feeding/predation traces:punctures
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:J. Maurice Collection dates:1989
Collection method comments: Discovered by Johnny Maurice in 1989
Metadata
Also known as:Motorola
Database number:52126
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2005-07-26 12:11:59 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-07-26 12:11:59
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
13995.ETE L. L. Jacobs, D. A. Winkler, P. A. Murry and J. M. Maurice. 1994. A nodosaurid scuteling from the Texas shore of the Western Interior Seaway. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies 337-346 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

31495 X. Pereda Suberbiola and P. M. Barrett. 1999. A systematic review of ankylosaurian dinosaur remains from the Albian-Cenomanian of England. In D. M. Unwin (ed.), Cretaceous Fossil Vertebrates. Special Papers in Palaeontology 60:177-208 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]