LSUMG 726 (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as VL-726

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: Aguja Formation, Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• 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 68012: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.12.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Baenidae
Baenidae indet.2 Cope 1882 turtle
LSUMG 726:17715, 17602, 6208, 17712, 17733
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
Helopanoplia sp.2 Hay 1908 turtle
LSUMG 726:17716
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.2 Gray 1825 softshell turtle
LSUMG 726:17644, 17639, 8287, 6203, 17627, 8431, 17601, 17721
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp.2 Cope 1868 turtle
LSUMG 726:17707, 17709
 Testudines - Kinosternoidea
cf. Hoplochelys sp.2 Hay 1908 mud turtle
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Basilemys sp.2 Hay 1902 turtle
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet.3 Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
LSUMG 726:6212
Saurornitholestinae indet.1 Longrich and Currie 2009 maniraptoran
LSUMG 726:5923, 5924, 5928, 6204, 6218
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid
LSUMG 726:6201, 6209, 6219-6221, 17896, 8236, 8217
 Theropoda - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet.3 Marsh 1890 ornithomimid
LSUMG 726:8347