TMM 41436, Tornillo Flat, Big Bend NP (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.4° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 82.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Javelina Formation (Tornillo Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• "lower third of the Tornillo Group"; lower sandy interval of Javelina Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; lenticular sandstone

• "multidepositional floodplain splay"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1970; reposited in the TMM

Primary reference: D. A. Lawson. 1976. Tyrannosaurus and Torosaurus, Maestrichtian dinosaurs from Trans-Pecos, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 50(1):158-164 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 69210: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.02.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906 tyrannosaurid
TMM 41436-1