Hays County pterosaur (PROXY) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Hays County, Texas (30.0° N, 98.0° W: paleocoordinates 28.7° N, 63.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Buda Limestone Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the TMM

Primary reference: W. Langston. 1974. Nonmammalian Comanchean tetrapods. In B. F. Perkins (ed.), Aspects of Trinity Division Geology. A Symposium on the Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Environments, and Fauna of the Comanche Cretaceous Trinity Division (Aptian and Albian) of Texas and Northern Mexico. Geoscience and Man 8:77-102 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89148: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 07.05.2009

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Ornithocheiridae
? Ornithocheiridae indet. Seeley 1870 pterosaur
TMM 40516-1, phalanx