Also known as East of Santa Elena Canyon

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rattlesnake Canyon Member (Aguja Formation), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• "near the top of the Rattlesnake Mountain member of the Aguja Formation... about 12 m above the base of this unit" at this locality

•unit is "middle Campanian" based on bivalves and ammonites

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; burrowed sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by T. M. Lehman, W. Langston, E. Yarmer, R. Rainey in 1987; reposited in the TMM

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float),

• mostly excavated, but parts were collected as surface float

Primary reference: T. M. Lehman and S. L. Tomlinson. 2004. Terlinguachelys fischbecki, a new genus and species of sea turtle (Chelonioidea: Protostegidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 78(6):1163-1178 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90466: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 28.07.2009

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