Big Bend, smaller Quetzalcoatlus specimens (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.3° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 82.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• Found 110-140 m above the base of the Tornillo Group

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; siltstone and lenticular, conglomeratic sandstone

• "clayey floodplain siltstone associated with conglomeratic sandstone lenses"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Lawson; reposited in the TMM

Primary reference: D. A. Lawson. 1975. Pterosaur from the latest Cretaceous of West Texas: discovery of the largest flying creature. Science 187:947-948 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92249: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 04.11.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Azhdarchidae
Quetzalcoatlus northropi
Quetzalcoatlus northropi Lawson 1975 pterosaur
Two partial skeletons