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Serpula (Linnaeus, 1746) spp.

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  • collector:    Keith Minor

  • formation:  Washita Grp, Weno LS

  • location:     Tarrant County, Texas

  • collector:    Keith Minor

  • formation:  Eagle Ford Grp, Kamp Ranch LS

  • location:     Dallas County, TX

  • collector:    Mike Everhart

  • formation:  Skull Creek Grp, Kiowa Sh

  • location:     Kiowa County, KS

General Info

Stratigraphic Occurrence (includes several species)

(Serpula spp. occurs throughout the Cretaceous of North America)

  • Skull Creek Group, Champion Shell Bed of the Kiowa Formation of KS

  • Malone Formation (Jurassic) of the Malone Mts, Trans–Pecos, TX

  • Upper Trinity Group, Lower Glen Rose Formation, north–central TX

  • Navarro Group, Corsicana Formation, north–central TX

  • Ripley Formation, Tennessee

  • Upper Washita Group, Weno Formation, north–central TX

  • Lower Washita Group, Fort Worth Formation, north–central TX

  • Upper Washita Group, Grayson Formation, north–central TX

  • We have examples from many other formations from TX

  • Upper Eagle Ford Group, Lower Arcadia Park Formation, north TX

 

Age

  • According to Shimer & Shrock, Serpula  (Linnaeus, 1746) ranges from about the Silurian Period and has extant (living) representatives today.

 

Geographic Occurrence (not an all-inclusive list)

  • Bosque County, TX

  • Comal County, TX

  • Dallas County, TX

  • Denton County, TX

  • Hood County, TX

  • Kansas (county not given)

  • Kaufman County, TX

  • McLennan County, TX

  • Navarro County, TX

  • Somervell County, TX

  • Tarrant County, TX

 

Remarks

         For identification and descriptions, see:

  • Adkins, W. S. 1928. Handbook of Texas Cretaceous Fossils. University of Texas Bulletin 2838, 78–79

  • Case, G. R. 1992. A Pictorial Guide to Fossils. Florida: Krieger Publishing.

  • Mancini, E. A. 1978. Origin of the Grayson Micromorph Fauna (Upper Cretaceous) of North–Central Texas. Journal of Paleontology 52, 1294–1314.

  • Shimer, H. W.; Shrock, R. R. 1944. Index Fossils of North America. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Chapter 6.

  • Thompson, I. 1982. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

  • Winton, W. M.; Adkins, W. S. 1931. The Geology of Tarrant County. University of Texas Bulletin 1931.

 

 

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