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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Eothoracosaurus mississippiensis Brochu 2004 crocodilian |