Also known as VL-747
Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.2° N, 103.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 77.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Shale Member (Aguja Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• upper part of formation; bed is about 1.5 m thick
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; paleosol/pedogenic, nodular, gray, muddy sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: J. T. Sankey. 2010. Faunal composition and significance of high-diversity, mixed bonebeds containing Agujaceratops mariscalensis and other dinosaurs, Aguja Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Big Bend, Texas. In M. J. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, D. A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 520-537 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 109657: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.05.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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