McInnish Park, Coppell: Late Cenomanian, Texas
collected by Steven Adams

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Asteroidea - Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Comptoniaster adamsi Blake 2010
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Dallas
Coordinates: 33.0° North, 96.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.3° North, 61.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 5
Key time interval: Late Cenomanian
Age range of interval: 100.5 - 93.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Eagle Ford Formation:Britton
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Britton has a total thickness of about 100 m; it encompasses the Sciponoceras gracile Zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified siderite
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:TMM
Collectors:Steven Adams
Metadata
Database number:95371
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-04-14 06:15:23 Last modified:2021-07-01 20:02:54
Access level:the public Released:2010-04-14 06:15:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
32454. D. B. Blake. 2010. Comptoniaster adamsi nov. sp. (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) from the middle Cretaceous of Texas and its phylogenetic position. Geobios 43:179-190 [L. Villier/L. Villier]