TMM 44066, Dawson Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.3° N, 103.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 77.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Lower Shale Member (Aguja Formation), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• approximately 25 meters from base of local section

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coarse-grained mudstone

• illustrated as being in carbonaceous mudstone unit in figure 3

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. M. Lehman, S. L. Wick, A. B. Brink and T. A. Shiller, II. 2019. Stratigraphy and vertebrate fauna of the lower shale member of the Aguja Formation (lower Campanian) in West Texas. Cretaceous Research 99:291-314 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 200396: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 02.04.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Basilemys sp.
Basilemys sp. Hay 1902 turtle
TMM 44066-1
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet.
Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
pedal phalanx, TMM 44066-4
 Ornithischia - Nodosauridae
Nodosauridae indet.
Nodosauridae indet. Marsh 1890 ankylosaur
Isolated fragmentary osteoderm, TMM 44066-2
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.
Hadrosauridae indet. hadrosaurid
unnamed new genus and species; occipital condyle, TMM 44066-3
Actinopteri
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
Melvius sp.
Melvius sp. Bryant 1987 bowfin
TMM 44066-5