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Pipe Creek [Glen Rose Limestone], Bandera County, Texas, USA
Lat/Long (Decimal) | 29.7233,-98.9358 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | based on political unit |
Given Location | Texas, United States |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Bandera County, Texas, USA |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Pipe Creek [Glen Rose Limestone] | Young K. (1974) | Glen Rose Limestone | 230 feet of dolomitic limestones, marly limestones, biolithites and evaporitic limestones underlain by Hensel Formation and overlain by Walnut Formation. Section of Glen Rose fossils sourced from was 6.5m thick. 12 feet (3.6 m) below "Corbula Bed". AGE: Early Albian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy; Douvilleiceras mammillatum zone. | "limestone" | 112.03 - 109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Douvilleiceras mammillatum species | Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Douvilleiceratidae : Douvilleiceras : Douvilleiceras mammillatum | 112.03 - 109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous |
References
Young K. (1974) Lower Albian and Aptian (Cretaceous) ammonites of Texas, Geoscience and Man, Aspects of Trinity Division geology 8, 175-228 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!