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{{Short description|Geological formation in the United States}}
{{Infobox rockunit
| name = Paluxy Formation
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| type = [[Geological formation]]
| age = [[Early Cretaceous]]
| period = Albian
| prilithology = [[Sandstone]], [[mudstone]], [[limestone]]
| otherlithology =
| namedfor = [[Paluxy, Texas]]
| namedby = [[Robert T. Hill|Robert Thomas Hill]]<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hill|first1=R.T.|title=The Comanche series of the Texas-Arkansas region|journal=Bulletin of the Geological Society of America|date=1891|volume=2|issue=1|pages=504, 509, 510–511}}</ref>
| region = [[North America]]
| country =
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| unitof = [[Trinity Group (geologic formation)|Trinity Group]]
| subunits = Baum Limestone Member, Georges Creek Member, Lake Merritt Member<ref name="Geolex Unit Summary">{{cite web | url=http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/Units/Paluxy_9754.html | title=Geologic Unit: Paluxy | publisher=USGS | work=National Geologic Map Database | accessdate=31 May 2014}}</ref>
| underlies = [[Walnut Formation]] (Fredericksburg Group)
| overlies = [[Glen Rose Formation]]
| thickness = up to {{convert|1450|ft|m|abbr=on}}<ref name="Citation Summary">{{cite web | url=http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/Refsmry/sumry_9754.html | title=Summary of Citation: Paluxy | publisher=USGS | work=National Geologic Map Database | accessdate=31 May 2014}}</ref>
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[[File:Austin Chalk stratigraphic column in Texas.png|thumb|300px|Paluxy Formation [[stratigraphic column]] in Texas]]
The '''Paluxy Formation''' is a geological [[Formation (geology)|formation]] found in [[Texas]], [[Louisiana]], [[Arkansas]], [[Mississippi]] and [[Oklahoma]], whose strata date back to the [[Early Cretaceous]]. [[Dinosaur]] remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.<ref name="cretaceousdistribution">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}}.</ref>

==Vertebrate paleofauna==
* Coelurosauria indet.<ref>Langston, W. 1974. Nonmammalian Comanchean tetrapods. Geoscience and Man 8: 77-102.</ref>
* ''[[Cedarosaurus]] weiskopfae''<ref name=astrophocaudia/>
* ''[[Astrophocaudia]] slaughteri''<ref name=astrophocaudia>D’Emic, Michael D. (2012). "Revision of the sauropod dinosaurs of the Lower Cretaceous Trinity Group, southern USA, with the description of a new genus". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 11 (6): 707–726. doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.667446.</ref>
* Nodosauridae indet.
* ''[[Tenontosaurus]] cf. tilletti''

==See also==
{{Portal|Earth sciences|Paleontology|Dinosaurs||}}
* [[List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Cretaceous geology of Oklahoma]]
[[Category:Cretaceous geology of Texas]]
[[Category:Albian Stage]]
[[Category:Carboniferous southern paleotropical deposits]]
[[Category:Cretaceous Louisiana]]
[[Category:Cretaceous Arkansas]]
[[Category:Cretaceous Mississippi]]
[[Category:Sandstone formations of the United States]]
[[Category:Mudstone formations of the United States]]
[[Category:Limestone formations of the United States]]
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Paluxy Formation - Revision history

imported>Volcanoguy: removed Category:Mudstone formations; added Category:Mudstone formations of the United States using HotCat