Big Bend tracksite (PROXY) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.3° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 76.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Aguja Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by B. Brown & E. M. Schlaikjer in 1940; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: Anonymous. 1940. Biggest dinosaur bones sought in Texas mountains. Science News Letter 38:104 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 189800: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.11.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• AMNH database lists Testudines indet., Ornithischia indet., Saurischia indet. as coming from this expedition and without further specific locality data
Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur
footprints