TMM Loc. 41541 (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

• "argillaceous, calcareous, and concretionary matrix"

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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Saltasauridae
Alamosaurus cf. sanjuanensis Gilmore 1922 saltasaurine
TMM 41541-1
Lycopodiopsida
 Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae
cf. Selaginella sp. Beauvois 1804 spikemoss
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Betulaceae
 Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
? Liquidambar sp. Linnaeus 1753 sweetgum
 Santalales -
Anacolosidites sp. Krutzsch 1959
 Cornales - Nyssaceae
Nyssa sp. Linnaeus 1753 tupelo