1.5 miles south of Wax Works (AMNH): Middle Campanian - Late Campanian, Texas
collected by B. Brown, R. Bird 1940

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Nodosauridae
cf. Palaeoscincus sp. Leidy 1856
1 specimen
"resembling Palaeoscincus", AMNH 3076
    = Panoplosaurus sp. Lambe 1919
Coombs 1978
AMNH 3076, skull
    = Edmontonia sp. Sternberg 1928
Carpenter 1990
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Brewster
Coordinates: 29.2° North, 103.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.6° North, 76.7° West
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 - 72.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Aguja Member:Upper Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:AMNH
Collectors:B. Brown, R. Bird Collection dates:1940
Metadata
Also known as:Big Bend NP, Tornillo Creek
Database number:189814
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-11-14 16:45:16 Last modified:2023-08-04 14:06:49
Access level:the public Released:2017-11-14 16:45:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
1135. B. Brown. 1941. The methods of Walt Disney Productions. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Series 2 3(4):100-105 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

77485% 18900K. Carpenter. 1990. Ankylosaur systematics: example using Panoplosaurus and Edmontonia (Ankylosauria: Nodosauridae). In K. Carpenter & P. J. Currie (ed.), Dinosaur Systematics: Approaches and Perspectives 281-298 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17480ETE W. P. Coombs. 1978. The families of the ornithischian dinosaur order Ankylosauria. Palaeontology 21(1):143-170 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63793 K. L. Davies. 1983. Hadrosaurian Dinosaurs of Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. viii-235 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]
85562 T. M. Lehman. 1985. Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Paleontology of Upper Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian) Sedimentary Rocks in Trans-Pecos Texas xiv-299 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
68445 R. A. Maxwell and R. T. Hazzard. 1967. Stratigraphy. In R. A. Maxwell, J. T. Lonsdale, R. T. Hazzard, & J. A. Wilson (eds.), Geology of Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. The University of Texas Publication 6711:23-156 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
68428 J. A. Wilson. 1967. Early Tertiary mammals. In R. A. Maxwell, J. T. Lonsdale, R. T. Hazzard, & J. A. Wilson (eds.), Geology of Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. The University of Texas Publication 6711:157-169 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]