Where: Cooke County, Texas (33.6° N, 97.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 59.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Weno Formation (Washita Group), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Weno Formation, which overlies the Denton Clay (Late Albian) and is overlain by the Pawpaw Formation. AGE: Late Albian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
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•"Lower Cretaceous" - according to Rathbun reference, 1935.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
• Represented by abdominal segments 1-6 and by the hinder end of the carapace, (E. wenoensis);
Collected by W.S. Adkins in 1919
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• collection in University of Texas, type, Coll. No. 191 (E. wenoensis);
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140911: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 19.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Enoploclytia wenoensis n. sp.
Enoploclytia wenoensis n. sp. Rathbun 1935 decapod |