Also known as TMM 45856, Big Bend National Park
Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.2° N, 103.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 77.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Shale Member (Aguja Formation), Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• base of the upper shale member, about 5 m above the top of the Terlingua Creek sandstone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; carbonaceous claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2005; reposited in the TMM
Primary reference: T. M. Lehman and S. L. Wick. 2010. Chupacabrachelys complexus, n. gen. n. sp. (Testudines: Bothremydidae), from the Aguja Formation (Campanian) of West Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(6):1709-1725 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 115414: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 02.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Chupacabrachelys complexus Lehman and Wick 2010 sideneck turtle TMM 45856-1 (a complete shell with right and left innominates in articulation, left coracoid, left humerus, metatarsal, and phalanx)
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