Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.4° N, 103.2° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 40.5° N, 71.9° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Javelina Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (72.2 - 66.0 Ma)
• located about 25 meters above a tuff dated as 69.0 ± 0.9 Ma (U-Pb) (late Edmontonian to Lancian NALMA)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the TMM
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: T. M. Lehman and A. B. Coulson. 2002. A juvenile specimen of the sauropod dinosaur Alamosaurus sanjuanensis from the Upper Cretaceous of Big Bend National Park, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 76(1):156-172 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 52090: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 21.07.2005
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Quetzalcoatlus sp. Lawson 1975 pterosaur | |
Alamosaurus sanjuanensis Gilmore 1922 saltasaurine |