near Rattlesnake Mountain: Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian, Texas
collected 2005
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Chupacabrachelys complexus
Lehman and Wick 2010
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| TMM 45856-1 (a complete shell with right and left innominates in articulation, left coracoid, left humerus, metatarsal, and phalanx) | ||||||||||
| 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, 77.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
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: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: base of the upper shale member, about 5 m above the top of the Terlingua Creek sandstone | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | carbonaceous claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: thick claystone | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: coastal environment - brackish water habitat | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | TMM | Collection dates: | 2005 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | TMM 45856, Big Bend National Park | ||
| Database number: | 115414 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | ||
| Created: | 2011-09-02 00:17:51 | Last modified: | 2017-11-14 16:04:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-09-02 00:17:51 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 37368. | T. M. Lehman and S. L. Wick. 2010. Chupacabrachelys complexus, n. gen. n. sp. (Testudines: Bothremydidae), from the Aguja Formation (Campanian) of West Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(6):1709-1725 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |