Hodges Ranch Locality (GA Bishop Coll. 26)

The presence of mud cracks, bored bedding planes, bedding planes with encrusting oysters, algal mat laminations, ripple marks, dinosaur trailways, and plant debris is evidence for supratidal, intertidal. or shallow subtidal conditions. Beds of lime muds containing echinoids, miliolid foraminifera, infaunal pelecypods, corals and numerous gastropods imply marine conditions prevailed at times. The interbedding of these sediments points to a depositional system of shallow marine lagoons with numerous small islands or rapidly prograding supratidal areas in protected lagoons behind a reef-like barrier (Winter 1962, Hendricks and Wilson 1967:5, Stricklin et al.1971, Young 1972:1).

The Hodges Range Locality {GAB 26).— The Hodges Ranch Locahty (Fig. 5) is\r\nsituated on the third tributary of Wasp Creek west of Texas Farm Road 1376 about\r\n12.9 km (8 mi) north of Boerne, Kendall Co., Texas. Specimens were collected from\r\na soft marl that contained Salenia texana]\xs\ below a Corbula bed (Fig. 1). The locality also produced numerous sea urchins and some crinoids.\r\nThe outcrop is a semi-barren gentle slope (Fig. 7) just above a small creek.