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

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Texigryphea washitaensis
Suarodon sp.
or Saurocephalus sp.
Reptilia - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890
    = ? Texasetes sp. Coombs 1995
Pereda Suberbiola and Barrett 1999
Reptilia - Testudines
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Cretolamna appendiculata (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Cretalamna appendiculata
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Eoptolamnidae
Leptostyrax macrorhiza (Cope 1875)
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Parascylliidae
Paraisurus macrorhiza Cappetta 1980
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes
Pseudohypolophus sp. Cappetta and Case 1975
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
Asteroidea
Asteroidea indet. de Blainville 1830
Crinoidea - Roveacrinida - Roveacrinidae
Poecilocrinus dispandus Peck 1943
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Engonoceratidae
Engonoceras sp. Neumayr and Uhlig 1881
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Stearnsia robbinsi
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia ? clavigera
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Lopha quadriplicata (Kues 1997)
recombined as Peilinia quadriplicata
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Neithea sp. Drouet 1824
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Etyidae
Xanthosia wintoni n. sp. Rathbun 1935
Xanthosia aspera Rathbun 1935
recombined as Steorrosia aspera
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae
Raninella sp. Milne-Edwards 1862
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palinuridae
Linuparus adkinsi Rathbun 1935
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Tarrant
Coordinates: 32.7° North, 97.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.0° North, 59.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Albian
Age range of interval:106.20000 - 100.50000 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:2023-01-04 08:58:45
Access level:the public Released:2005-07-26 12:11:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
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]