Paluxy Church: Late Aptian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ophiopsiidae
|
||||||||||
? Ophiopsis sp.
Agassiz 1834
|
Thurmond 1974 | |||||||||
Ophiopsiformes
- Ophiopsiellidae
|
||||||||||
Macrepistius sp.
Cope 1894
|
Thurmond 1974 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
SMUSMP 62253, 62254 | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
|
||||||||||
Lepidotes sp.
Agassiz 1832
|
Winkler et al. 1990 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Amiidae
|
||||||||||
? Melvius sp.
Bryant 1988
|
Winkler et al. 1990 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Pycnodontiformes
|
||||||||||
Paramicrodon estesi n. gen., n. sp.
Thurmond 1974
|
Thurmond 1974 | 30 specimens | ||||||||
SMUSMP 62090-62092, 62097-62101 | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Pycnodontiformes
- Pycnodontidae
|
||||||||||
Proscincetes texanus
|
Winkler et al. 1990 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
SMUSMP 62139, 62140 | ||||||||||
Palaeobalistum geiseri n. sp.
Thurmond 1974
|
Thurmond 1974 | 60 specimens | ||||||||
SMUSMP 62093-62095, 62117-32 | ||||||||||
Coelodus sp.
Haeckel
|
Thurmond 1974 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
SMUSMP 62268 | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Aulopiformes
- Enchodontidae
|
||||||||||
Enchodus sp.
Agassiz 1835
|
Winkler et al. 1990 | 2 elements | ||||||||
"numerous specimens", but only two listed | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Eutriconodonta
- Triconodontidae
|
||||||||||
Astroconodon denisoni
Patterson 1951
|
1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
|
||||||||||
Theria indet.
Parker and Haswell 1897
|
Jacobs and Winkler 1998 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Dinosauria
|
||||||||||
Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
|
Winkler et al. 1990 | |||||||||
"indeterminate ornithischian or saurischian" | ||||||||||
Reptilia
|
||||||||||
Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
|
Thurmond 1974 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
|
||||||||||
Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
|
Winkler et al. 1990 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Dromaeosauridae
|
||||||||||
cf. Dromaeosauridae indet.
Colbert and Russell 1969
|
Winkler et al. 1990 | |||||||||
Reptilia
|
||||||||||
? Atoposauridae indet.
(Gervais 1871)
|
Winkler et al. 1990 | |||||||||
= Mesoeucrocodylia indet.
Whetstone and Whybrow 1983
|
Tennant et al. 2016 | |||||||||
cf. Bernissartia sp.
Dollo 1883
|
Winkler et al. 1990 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Pholidosauridae
|
||||||||||
? Pholidosauridae indet.
von Zittel and Eastman 1902
|
Winkler et al. 1990 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Teiidae
|
||||||||||
? Teiinae indet.
|
Winkler et al. 1990 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Lacertilia
|
||||||||||
Lacertilia indet.
Owen 1842
|
Winkler et al. 1990 | 14 specimens | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Anguidae
|
||||||||||
? Anguidae indet.
Gray 1825
|
Winkler et al. 1990 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
|
||||||||||
Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
|
Winkler et al. 1990 | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Prosirenidae
|
||||||||||
Prosiren elinorae
Goin and Auffenberg 1958
|
Winkler et al. 1990 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Gobiatidae
|
||||||||||
Anura indet.
(Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
|
Winkler et al. 1990 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
= Gobiates sp.
Spinar and Tatarinov 1986
|
Ročec and Nessov 1993 | |||||||||
SMU 72156, 72168-72169 (maxillae) | ||||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Discoglossidae
|
||||||||||
? Discoglossidae indet.
Günther 1859
|
Winkler et al. 1990 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Polyacrodontidae
|
||||||||||
Hybodus aff. parvidens
Woodward 1916
|
Thurmond 1971 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
SMU 62193-62195 | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
|
||||||||||
Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi
(Thurmond 1971)
|
Winkler et al. 1990 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Hood |
Coordinates: | 32.3° North, 97.9° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 30.3° North, 52.6° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early Cretaceous |
10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2-3 | ||
*Period: | Early/Lower Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Gallic |
*International age/stage: | Aptian | ||
Key time interval: | Late Aptian | ||
Age range of interval: | 119.5 - 113 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Trinity | Formation: | Twin Mountains | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: fossiliferous horizon is "approximately 12 m below the Thorp Spring ('Middle') Member of the Glen Rose Formation". Also listed as Travis Peak Fm. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | siltstone |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:referred to by Slaughter as Paluxy |
Metadata
Also known as: | Paluxy; SMU Loc. 138 | ||
Database number: | 14408 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion, M. Carrano, R. Benson | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion, M. Carrano, R. Benson |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2000-05-19 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2022-02-11 09:02:31 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-05-19 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
3187. | B. H. Slaughter. 1969. Astroconodon, the Cretaceous Triconodont. Journal of Mammalogy 50(1):102-107 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
2008 | L. L. Jacobs and D. A. Winkler. 1998. Mammals, archosaurs, and the Early to Late Cretaceous terrestrial transition in north-central Texas. In Y. Tomida, L. J. Flynn, & L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Advances in Vertebrate Paleontology and Geochronology. National Science Museum Monographs 14:253-280 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] | |
13937 | ETE | 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] |
18862 | Z. Ročec and L. A. Nessov. 1993. Cretaceous anurans from Central Asia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 226:1-54 [E. Fara/E. Fara/M. Uhen] | |
59838 | J. P. Tennant, P. D. Mannion, and P. Upchurch. 2016. Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177:854-936 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
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] |
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] | |
7600 | D. A. Winkler, P. A. Murry, and L. L. Jacobs. 1990. Early Cretaceous (Comanchean) vertebrates of central Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 10(1):95-116 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |