Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.2° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 76.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Shale Member (Aguja Formation), Judithian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Multiple sites from above WPA quarry level - five horizons
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: channel lag; paleosol/pedogenic, intraclastic, sandy conglomerate
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: J. T. Sankey. 1998. Vertebrate paleontology and magnetostratigraphy, upper Aguja Formation (late Campanian), Big Bend National Park, Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3, suppl.):75A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14488: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1998, edited by Jason Head and Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888 ceratopsid | |
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Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid | |
Richardoestesia cf. gilmorei Currie et al. 1990 maniraptoran
Richardoestesia isosceles Sankey 2001 maniraptoran
Saurornitholestes cf. langstoni Sues 1978 maniraptoran | |
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid | |
Mammalia | |
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Meniscoessus sp. Cope 1882 multituberculate | |
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