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Comanche, USA

GroupComanche
Formation(s)Kiowa Shale
Paw Paw
Age:145 - 101 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
IntervalEarly Cretaceous
Number of Collections4
Number of Occurrences6

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
DeLeon StationSan Saba County, Texas, USAComanche
east of Millsap StationParker County, Texas, USAComanche
Little Missouri RiverPike County, Arkansas, USAComanche
Stephenville ParkErath County, Texas, USAComanche
Blue Mound nodosaur site Tarrant County, Texas, USAComanche - Paw Paw
near BelvidereKiowa County, Kansas, USAComanche - Kiowa Shale

Associated Units

Stratigraphic NameAgeLithologyOccurrence Records
Comanche - Kiowa Shale113 - 101 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
shale1
Comanche - Paw Paw105 - 99.6 Ma
Cretaceous
1

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Macromesodon sp.
genus
6Animalia : Chordata : Actinopteri : Pycnodontiformes : Pycnodontidae : Macromesodon145 - 100.5 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Texasetes pleurohalio
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Nodosauridae : Texasetes : Texasetes pleurohalio105.3 - 99.6 Ma
Cretaceous
Dinosauria
order
4Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria145 - 100.5 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Testudines
order
4Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines145 - 100.5 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Toxochelyidae
family
5Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Testudines : Toxochelyidae113 - 100.5 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

References

Hay O. P. (1908) The fossil turtles of North America, Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75, 1-568
Gould C. N. (1929) Comanchean reptiles from Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 40, 457-462
Adkins W. S. (1933) The Mesozoic systems in Texas, The Geology of Texas. Volume I. Stratigraphy. The University of Texas Bulletin 3232, 239-518
Langston W. (1974) Nonmammalian Comanchean tetrapods, 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
Thurmond J. T. (1974) Lower vertebrate faunas of the Trinity Division on north-central Texas, 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
Coombs W. P. (1995) A new nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Texas, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15 2, 298-312
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