Where: Hood County, Texas (32.3° N, 97.9° W: paleocoordinates 30.3° N, 52.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Twin Mountains Formation (Trinity Group), Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• Transgressive marine deposits of the Glen Rose Formation crop out less than 9.66 m above dinosaur quarry, and lowest fossiliferous Glen Rose level is 12.97 m above. Location near base of Glen Rose Fm. suggests age close to 112 Ma.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; lithified, concretionary, intraclastic, argillaceous, carbonaceous sandstone and lenticular, argillaceous sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by J. G. Pittman et al. in 1985-87, 1993–

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: D. A. Winkler, E. M. Gomani, and L. L. Jacobs. 2000. Comparative taphonomy of an Early Cretaceous sauropod quarry, Malawi, Africa. Y.-N. Lee (ed.), 2000 International Dinosaur Symposium for Kosong County in Korea. Paleontological Society of Korea Special Publication 4:99-114 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52865: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 24.08.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano, Roger Benson and Nathan Jud

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