Also known as Big Bend National Park
Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.1° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 76.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Shale Member (Aguja Formation), Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• about 175 feet above the marine phase of the Aguja formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; gray, yellow, blue claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by B. Brown, R. Bird in 1940; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36635: authorized by Emmanuel Fara, entered by Emmanuel Fara on 08.02.2004, edited by Philip Mannion and Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Phobosuchus riograndensis n. sp.
Phobosuchus riograndensis n. sp. Colbert and Bird 1954 crocodilian misspelled "Dinosuchus"; AMNH 3073
|