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Paw Paw Formation
Paw Paw Formation
Stratigraphic range: Late Albian; ~105–100 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	Comanche & Washita Groups
Lithology
Primary	Mudstone
Location
Coordinates	32°54′N 97°18′W / 32.9°N 97.3°W
Approximate paleocoordinates	30°12′N 59°48′W / 30.2°N 59.8°W
Region	Texas
Country	United States
	Paw Paw Formation (the United States) Paw Paw Formation (Texas)

The Paw Paw Formation is a geological formation in Texas whose strata date back to the late Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.^[1]

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Cretolamna appendiculata
Engonoceras sp.^[2]
Feldmannia
Leptostyrax macrorhiza
Pachyamia
Paraisurus compressus
Pawpawsaurus campbelli^[1] - "Skull."^[3]
Pseudohypolophus sp.
Texasetes pleurohalio^[1] - "Partial skeleton."^[4]^[5]
Scaphites
Squalicorax sp.
Turrilites
Cretacoranina
Uktenadactylus wadleighi^[6]
Testudines indet.
Nodosauridae indet.^[1]

References edit

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Early Cretaceous, North America)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 553-556. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
^ Paw Paw Formation
^ "Table 17.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 365.
^ "Table 17.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 367.
^ Coombs, 1995
^ Rodrigues, Taissa; Kellner, Alexander W.A. (2008-12-31). "Review of the pterodactyloid pterosaur Coloborhynchus" (PDF). Zitteliana. B28: 219–228.

Bibliography edit

Weishampel, David B.; Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska (eds.). 2004. The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 1–880. Berkeley: University of California Press. Accessed 2019-02-21. ISBN 0-520-24209-2
W. P. Coombs. 1995. A new nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(2):298-312
L. L. Jacobs, D. A. Winkler, P. A. Murry and J. M. Maurice. 1994. A nodosaurid scuteling from the Texas shore of the Western Interior Seaway. In K. Carpenter, K. F. Hirsch, J. R. Horner (eds.), Dinosaur Eggs and Babies 337-346

[cretaceousdistribution-1] Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Early Cretaceous, North America)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 553-556. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.

[2] Paw Paw Formation

[table-17-1-365-3] "Table 17.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 365.

[table-17-1-367-4] "Table 17.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 367.

[Coombs1995-5] Coombs, 1995

[6] Rodrigues, Taissa; Kellner, Alexander W.A. (2008-12-31). "Review of the pterodactyloid pterosaur Coloborhynchus" (PDF). Zitteliana. B28: 219–228.

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Paw Paw Formation
Stratigraphic range: Late Albian ~105–100 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	Comanche & Washita Groups
Lithology
Primary	Mudstone
Location
Coordinates	32°54′N 97°18′W / 32.9°N 97.3°W / 32.9; -97.3
Approximate paleocoordinates	30°12′N 59°48′W / 30.2°N 59.8°W / 30.2; -59.8
Region	Texas
Country	United States
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