Rattlesnake Mountain (vertebrates, general): Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian, Texas
collected by J. Udden -1904
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Angiospermae
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Angiospermae indet.
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| tree trunks | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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Gymnospermophyta indet.
Cleal 1994
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Reptilia
- Tyrannosauridae
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Dryptosaurus sp.
Marsh 1877
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= ? Tyrannosauridae indet.
Osborn 1906
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Tweet and Santucci 2018 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Ceratopsidae
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? Ceratopsidae indet.
Marsh 1888
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| distal tibia | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Claosaurus sp.
Marsh 1890
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| limb bones and vertebrae | ||||||||||
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= Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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Weishampel and Weishampel 1983 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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Crocodilia indet.
Owen 1842
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| large form, "new to science" | ||||||||||
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= ? Deinosuchus sp.
Holland 1909
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Tweet and Santucci 2018 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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| several types of freshwater turtles | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Viviparidae
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Viviparus aff. raynoldsanus
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Brewster |
| Coordinates: | 29.3° North, 103.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.8° North, 77.0° 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 | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Rattlesnake Beds" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary,green claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "Fossils are usually preserved in the clays and limestones. In the sandstones they usually occur as moulds." | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | FMNH | ||
| Collectors: | J. Udden | Collection dates: | pre-1904 |
| Collection method comments: Supposedly sent to Univ. of Chicago Walker Museum, but not currently there nor in Field Museum (Davies, 1983). | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:IDs of vertebrates by S. Williston | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | L&W locality 47, Dawson Creek, Big Bend | ||
| Database number: | 150883 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-09-17 06:04:55 | Last modified: | 2021-02-26 11:24:36 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-09-17 06:04:55 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 48207. | J. A. Udden. 1907. A sketch of the geology of the Chisos country, Brewster County, Texas. Bulletin of the University of Texas 93:1-101 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 63793 | K. L. Davies. 1983. Hadrosaurian Dinosaurs of Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. viii-235 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] | |
| 12314 | ETE | R. S. Lull. 1933. A revision of the Ceratopsia or horned dinosaurs. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 3(3):1-175 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 12319 | ETE | R. S. Lull and N. E. Wright. 1942. Hadrosaurian dinosaurs of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 40:1-242 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 84543 | J. S. Tweet and V. L. Santucci. 2018. An inventory of non-avian dinosaurs from National Park Service areas. In S. G. Lucas & R. M. Sullivan (ed.), Fossil Record 6. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 79:703-730 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 61518 | D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [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] |