TMM 41917/41918, Mesa de Anguila: Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian, Texas
collected by F. Deckert 1977
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| TMM 41918-1, 2 distal caudal centra | ||||||||||
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Kritosaurus sp.
Brown 1910
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| TMM 41917-1, L. maxilla | ||||||||||
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= Malefica deckerti n. gen., n. sp.
Prieto-Márquez and Wagner 2023
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Prieto-Márquez and Wagner 2023 | |||||||||
| TxVP 41917-1 - holotype (partial left maxilla) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Tyrannosaurinae indet.
Matthew and Brown 1922
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Lehman and Wick 2013 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| TMM 41918-24, L frontal | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Brewster |
| Coordinates: | 29.2° North, 103.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.7° North, 77.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Aguja | Member: | Upper Shale |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | levee |
| Geology comments: levee deposit | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | TMM | ||
| Collectors: | F. Deckert | Collection dates: | 1977 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Big Bend NP, Sierra Aguja; Bruja Canyon; Bruta Canyon; Terlingua Abajo; TxVP 41917 | ||
| Database number: | 189810 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-11-14 16:23:24 | Last modified: | 2023-03-02 07:49:33 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-11-14 16:23:24 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 63793. | K. L. Davies. 1983. Hadrosaurian Dinosaurs of Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. viii-235 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 48379 | T. M. Lehman and S. L. Wick. 2013. Tyrannosauroid dinosaurs from the Aguja Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Big Bend National Park, Texas. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 103(3-4):1-15 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano] | |
| 83911 | A. Prieto-Márquez and J. R. Wagner. 2023. A new ‘duck-billed’ dinosaur (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) from the upper Campanian of Texas points to a greater diversity of early hadrosaurid offshoots. Cretaceous Research 143:105416 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |