Huggins #2: Albian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Callodus coronatus Thurmond 1974
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Gobiatidae
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
    = Gobiates sp. Spinar and Tatarinov 1986
Ročec and Nessov 1993
SMU 72170 (maxilla)
Amphibia - Caudata
? Caudata indet. Scopoli 1777
1 specimen
SMU 72153
    = Caudata indet. Scopoli 1777
Gardner 1999
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Prosirenidae
Prosiren elinorae Goin and Auffenberg 1958
Ophiopsiformes - Ophiopsiellidae
Macrepistius sp. Cope 1894
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Polyacrodontidae
Hybodus aff. parvidens Woodward 1916
recombined as Polyacrodus parvidens
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Eoptolamnidae
Leptostyrax bicuspidatus Williston 1900
synonym of Leptostyrax macrorhiza
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes
Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (Thurmond 1971)
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Rhinobatos sp. Link 1790
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Erath
Coordinates: 32.0° North, 98.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.6° North, 58.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
*Period:Early/Lower Cretaceous *Epoch:Gallic
Key time interval:Albian
Age range of interval:113.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Trinity Formation:Paluxy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "basal member"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:deltaic indet.
Geology comments: "fluvial meanderbelt to coastal barrier and deltaic facies"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:SMU 108-2
Database number:27606
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano, R. Benson Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano, R. Benson
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2002-12-13 16:37:46 Last modified:2013-06-27 13:02:46
Access level:the public Released:2002-12-13 16:37:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

26201ETE J. D. Gardner. 1999. The amphibian Albanerpeton arthridion and the Aptian-Albian biogeography of albanerpetonids. Palaeontology 42(3):529-544 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]
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]