Locality 1, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Denton Biostrome, Biofacies D: Late/Upper Albian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Calloporidae
Aplousina sp. Canu and Bassler 1927
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea washitaensis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten (Neithea) texanus Gabb 1861
synonym of Camptonectes virgatus
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella delriensis
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Cidaris (Stereocidaris) hemigranosus Shumard 1860
recombined as Leiocidaris hemigranosus
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Tarrant
Coordinates: 32.8° North, 97.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.1° North, 59.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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:Denton
Local section:Locality 1 Local bed:D
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Biofacies D; oyster biostrome at the top of the Denton Fm, Washita Group, Comanche Series
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified argillaceous "limestone"
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Geology comments: The depth of water in which this biofacies was deposited was shallower to the north, and all the localities infer deposition in the upper part of the neritic zone.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:65706
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-09-25 00:57:57 Last modified:2006-09-25 03:57:58
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-25 00:57:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

18885. L. R. Laughbaum. 1960. A Paleoecologic Study of the Upper Denton Formation, Tarrant, Denton, and Cooke Counties, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 34(6):1183-1197 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]