Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.4° N, 103.2° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 40.5° N, 71.9° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Javelina Formation (Tornillo Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (72.2 - 66.0 Ma)
• upper part of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary, calcareous claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collected in 1973; reposited in the TMM
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: J. F. Stone and W. Langston, Jr. 1975. Late Maestrichtian?–Paleocene palynomorphs associated with the sauropod dinosaur, ?Alamosaurus sanjuanensis. Geological Society of America, 9th Annual Meeting South-Central Section, Abstracts with Programs 7(2):238-239 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 165562: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.01.2015
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
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Lycopodiopsida | |
cf. Selaginella sp. Beauvois 1804 spikemoss | |
Angiospermae | |
Alnus trina alder | |
? Liquidambar sp. Linnaeus 1753 sweetgum | |
Anacolosidites sp. Krutzsch 1959 | |
Nyssa sp. Linnaeus 1753 tupelo |