Glass Local Fauna: Albian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes
Hypolophus mcnultyi n. sp. Thurmond 1971
recombined as Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Onchopristis dunklei McNulty and Slaughter 1962
ssp. nov. praecursor
Reptilia - Testudines - Toxochelyidae
? Toxochelyidae indet. Baur 1895
Thurmond 1974 1 specimen
SMUSMP 62266
Reptilia - Nodosauridae
? Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890
Langston 1974
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Somervell
Coordinates: 32.2° North, 97.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.7° North, 57.8° 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:Albian
Age range of interval:113.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Trinity Formation:Paluxy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:99142
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Oreska, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-10-29 06:23:52 Last modified:2015-08-12 11:52:35
Access level:the public Released:2010-10-29 06:23:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

34100.ETE J. T. Thurmond. 1971. Cartilaginous fishes of the Trinity Group and related rocks (Lower Cretaceous) of north central Texas. Southeastern Geology 13:207-227 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Oreska]

Secondary references:

13937ETE W. Langston. 1974. Nonmammalian Comanchean tetrapods. In B. F. Perkins (ed.), Aspects of Trinity Division Geology. A Symposium on the Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Environments, and Fauna of the Comanche Cretaceous Trinity Division (Aptian and Albian) of Texas and Northern Mexico. Geoscience and Man 8:77-102 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
56060 J. T. Thurmond. 1974. Lower vertebrate faunas of the Trinity Division on north-central Texas. In B. F. Perkins (ed.), Aspects of Trinity Division Geology. A Symposium on the Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Environments, and Fauna of the Comanche Cretaceous Trinity Division (Aptian and Albian) of Texas and Northern Mexico. Geoscience and Man 8:103-129 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]