East of Fresno Creek (Cretaceous to of the United States)

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

• "coastal floodplain facies"
• yellowish, blue-gray clay

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
 Crocodylia -
Phobosuchus riograndensis n. sp. Colbert and Bird 1954 crocodilian
misspelled "Dinosuchus"; AMNH 3073