Coon Creek (AMNH) (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: McNairy County, Tennessee (35.4° N, 88.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 60.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Coon Creek Tongue Member (Ripley Formation), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• "likely to have come from the Coon Creek Tongue"

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. S. Duckworth in 1931; reposited in the AMNH

• specimen was "acquired" by the AMNH from Vanderbilt University

Primary reference: C. A. Brochu. 2004. A New Late Cretaceous gavialoid crocodylian from Eastern North America and the phylogenetic relationships of thoracosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3):610-633 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 108938: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.05.2011

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Taxonomic list

• "fish bones, rib fragments" and "vertebrae possibly referred to a dyrosaurid such as Hyposaurus" are also present
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Eothoracosaurus mississippiensis Brochu 2004 crocodilian