PBDB Collection

LSUMG 726: Middle Campanian - Late Campanian, Texas

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae

	Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969	Sankey 2010	1 specimen
	LSUMG 726:6212

	Saurornitholestes cf. langstoni Sues 1978		5 specimens
	LSUMG 726:5923, 5924, 5928, 6204, 6218
	= Saurornitholestinae indet. Longrich and Currie 2009	Larson and Currie 2013
Reptilia - Ornithomimidae

	Ornithomimidae indet. Marsh 1890	Sankey 2010	1 specimen
	LSUMG 726:8347
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae

	Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906		7 specimens
	LSUMG 726:6201, 6209, 6219-6221, 17896, 8236, 8217
Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae

	Adocus sp. Cope 1868	Sankey 2006	5 specimens
	LSUMG 726:17707, 17709
Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea

	cf. Hoplochelys sp. Hay 1908	Sankey 2006	1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines

	Helopanoplia sp. Hay 1908	Sankey 2006	1 specimen
	LSUMG 726:17716
Reptilia - Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae

	Basilemys sp. Hay 1902	Sankey 2006	4 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae

	Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825	Sankey 2006	74 specimens
	LSUMG 726:17644, 17639, 8287, 6203, 17627, 8431, 17601, 17721
Reptilia - Baenidae

	Baenidae indet. Cope 1882	Sankey 2006	5 specimens
	LSUMG 726:17715, 17602, 6208, 17712, 17733
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Texas	County:	Brewster
Coordinates:	29.2° North, 103.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	38.7° North, 69.1° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late Cretaceous
Stage:	Campanian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:	Middle Campanian - Late Campanian
Age range of interval:	83.6 - 72.2 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Aguja
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	not reported
Environment:	"floodplain"

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Degree of concentration:	concentrated
Size of fossils:	mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:	many

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	bulk,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis

Metadata

Also known as:	VL-726
Database number:	68012
Authorizer:	M. Carrano	Enterer:	M. Carrano
Modifier:	G. Varnham	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2006-12-21 10:55:29	Last modified:	2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:	the public	Released:	2006-12-21 10:55:29
Creative Commons license:	CC0

Reference information

Primary reference:

19433.

ETE

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]

Secondary references:

48570		D. W. Larson and P. J. Currie. 2013. Multivariate analyses of small theropod dinosaur teeth and implications for paleoecological turnover through time. PLoS ONE 8(1):e54329:1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
25981	ETE	J. T. Sankey. 2006. Turtles of the upper Aguja Formation (late Campanian), Big Bend National Park, Texas. In S. G. Lucas and R. M. Sullivan (eds.), Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:235-243 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
36226	ETE	J. T. Sankey. 2010. Faunal composition and significance of high-diversity, mixed bonebeds containing Agujaceratops mariscalensis and other dinosaurs, Aguja Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Big Bend, Texas. In M. J. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, D. A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 520-537 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]