3 miles northeast of Grapevine Ranch (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Big Bend

Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.4° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 82.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Said to come from the "upper Aguja", but provenance unclear - given distribution of other titanosaurs in North America, and other units in Big Bend area, potentially more likely to be from Ojo Alamo Formation

• 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

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: B. Brown. 1941. The methods of Walt Disney Productions. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Series 2 3(4):100-105 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 165198: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Saltasauridae
Alamosaurus sp. Gilmore 1922 saltasaurine
cervical vertebra, AMNH 3080