Sawmill Site Locality (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Decatur County, Tennessee (35.6° N, 88.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 60.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Coon Creek Tongue Member (Ripley Formation), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L. Harrell in 1999

• Pink Palace Museum collection

Primary reference: C. A. Brochu. 2004. A New Late Cretaceous gavialoid crocodylian from Eastern North America and the phylogenetic relationships of thoracosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3):610-633 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 108937: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.05.2011

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Eothoracosaurus mississippiensis Brochu 2004 crocodilian