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| TMM 45911-1 - holotype |
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| Country: | United States |
State/province: | Texas |
County: | Brewster |
| Coordinates: |
29.6° North, 103.7° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.0° North, 86.5° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
| Period: | Paleogene |
Epoch: | Eocene |
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10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 - Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Late Uintan - Duchesnean |
| Age range of interval: | 46.2 - 37 m.y. ago |
| Age estimate: | 42.8 to 41.5 Ma (Ar/Ar) |
| Formation: | Devil's Graveyard |
Member: | Middle |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
| Stratigraphy comments: upper half of the unnamed middle member, Devil’s Graveyard Formation, late Uintan-Duchesnean (~42.8-41.5 Ma) |
| Primary lithology: | coarse conglomeratic sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: coarse-grained, conglomeratic sandstone block that had fallen from a cliff face |
| Environment: | "channel" |
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | TMM |
| Collection dates: | 2010 |
| Also known as: | TMM-45911; Dalquest Desert Research Site |
| Database number: | 217014 |
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion |
Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion |
| Created: | 2021-01-15 10:55:31 |
Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public |
Released: | 2021-01-15 10:55:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
| 75183. | | M. R. Stocker, C. A. Brochu, and E. C. Kirk. 2021. A new caimanine alligatorid from the Middle Eocene of Southwest Texas and implications for spatial and temporal shifts in Paleogene crocodyliform diversity. PeerJ 9:e10665:1-34 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |