WPA Quarry L3 (TMM) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Glenn Spring

Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.1° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 76.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aguja Formation, Judithian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; gray, carbonaceous claystone

• "deltaic interdistributary marshes"
• "carbonaceous gray claystone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. Strain & WPA in 1938–1939; reposited in the TMM

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: J. A. Wilson. 1967. Early Tertiary mammals. In R. A. Maxwell, J. T. Lonsdale, R. T. Hazzard, & J. A. Wilson (eds.), Geology of Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. The University of Texas Publication 6711:157-169 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48941: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.04.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ceratopsidae
"Chasmosaurus mariscalensis n. sp." = Agujaceratops mariscalensis2
"Chasmosaurus mariscalensis n. sp." = Agujaceratops mariscalensis2 Lehman 1989 Aguja horned face
UTEP P.37.3.086
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.1 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
UTEP P.37.7.246, 248
Kritosaurus sp.1 Brown 1910 hadrosaurine
UTEP P.37.7.003-004, 219-245, 247, 259-276, 284, 377