Big Bend, AMNH collections (PROXY) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.3° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 76.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. Brown & E. M. Schlaikjer in 1939–1940; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: A. M. N. H. Database. 2015. [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 191054: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.01.2018

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
? Pentaceratops sp. Osborn 1923 ceratopsid
"incomplete ceratopsian skull" and "a ceratopsian pelvis, sacrum, and part of the dorsal series with ribs attached" (AMNH 21503, 21671?)
aff. Brachyceratops sp. Gilmore 1914 ceratopsid
"a disarticulated skull with associated limb bones"