McKinney Spring: Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian, Texas
collected by D. Savage, W. McAnulty, W. Langston 1938
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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1 specimen | |||||||||
humerus | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Brewster |
Coordinates: | 29.4° North, 103.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 35.8° North, 76.5° 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: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | black "shale" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Collectors: | D. Savage, W. McAnulty, W. Langston | Collection dates: | 1938 |
Metadata
Database number: | 189798 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2017-11-14 15:26:40 | Last modified: | 2021-02-26 11:26:20 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-11-14 15:26:40 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
63793. | K. L. Davies. 1983. Hadrosaurian Dinosaurs of Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. viii-235 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] |