LSUMG 741, Rattlesnake Mountain (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as VL-741

Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.2° N, 103.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 77.1° 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)

• upper part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: J. T. Sankey, B. R. Standhardt, and J. A. Schiebout. 2005. Theropod teeth from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian), Big Bed National Park, Texas. In K. Carpenter (ed.), The Carnivorous Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 127-152 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68008: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.12.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid
LSUMG 741:5226, 5919-5922, 5987, 6015-6018, 6020-6021, 6024-6025, 6027-6036, 6045-6046
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Richardoestesia isosceles Sankey 2001 maniraptoran
LSUMG 741:5933, 5944
Saurornitholestinae indet. Longrich and Currie 2009 maniraptoran
LSUMG 6023
Saurornitholestes cf. langstoni Sues 1978 maniraptoran
LSUMG 741:5927, 5929-5932, 5935-5938