AMNH No. 7, Benchmark 2138 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Big Bend NP

Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.1° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 76.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Aguja Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. Brown & E. M. Schlaikjer in 1940; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: Anonymous. 1940. Biggest dinosaur bones sought in Texas mountains. Science News Letter 38:104 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165197: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

• AMNH database lists Testudines indet., Ornithischia indet., Saurischia indet. as coming from this expedition and without further specific locality data
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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
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