ammonites
Dryden, 2.7 km W of [Buda Limestone] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Terrell County, Texas (30.0° N, 102.1° W: paleocoordinates 29.6° N, 67.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Buda Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Buda Limestone, which overlies the Del Rio Fm (Cenomanian), and is correlative with the Grasyon Fm. AGE: Early Cenomanian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 1 m below top of middle (nodular) within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular limestone

• ENVIRONMENT: Not discussed in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Nodular limestone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Stricklen

• COLLECTOR: F. Stricklen. REPOSITORY: UT and WSA.

Primary reference: K. Young. 1979. Lower Cenomanian and Late Albian (Cretaceous) ammonites, especially Lyelliceridae, or Texas and Mexico. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 26:1-99 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88743: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.04.2009

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