Also known as OMNH V58; TMM 43057
Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.3° N, 103.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 77.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Shale Member (Aguja Formation), Judithian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• "microvertebrate-bearing bed is 13 to 18 cm thick" and "within several meters of the top of the underlying Terlingua Creek sandstone member"
•ammonites and bivalves support a late Campanian age
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; conglomerate and sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the TMM
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve
Primary reference: T. Rowe, R. L. Cifelli, T. M. Lehman and A. Weil. 1992. The Campanian Terlingua local fauna, with a summary of other vertebrates from the Aguja Formation, Trans-Pecos Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12(4):472-493 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14489: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994, edited by Matthew Carrano, Jonathan Tennant and Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri | |
Phyllodontidae indet. Sauvage 1875 | |
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825 gar | |
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861 bowfin | |
Amphibia | |
Anura indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1813 frog | |
Urodela indet. salamander
Scapherpetontidae indet. Auffenberg and Goin 1959 salamander | |
Albanerpetontidae indet.3, "Albanerpeton nexuosus" = Albanerpeton nexuosus3, "Albanerpeton nexuosum" = Albanerpeton nexuosus4, Albanerpeton gracilis3
"Albanerpeton nexuosus" = Albanerpeton nexuosus3 Estes 1981 tetrapod OMNH 25345, 60238-60241, 25235, 25238, 60243-60244
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Reptilia | |
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Serpentes indet. snake | |
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Catactegenys solaster n. gen. n. sp.8
Catactegenys solaster n. gen. n. sp.8 Nydam et al. 2013 night lizard Holotype: TMM 43057-286, partial right spleniodentary; paratypes: TMM 43057-287, partial right maxilla; TMM 43057-288, partial left spleniodentary; TMM 43057-393, partial left spleniodentary; referred specimens: OMNH 30874, partial left spleniodentary; OMNH 30884, partial spleniodentary; TMM 43057-404, two isolated, unassociated teeth.
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Necrosauridae indet. Hoffstetter 1943 squamates | |
cf. Xenosauridae sp.8 Cope 1866 squamates TMM 43057-614, osteoderm; TMM 43057-615; TMM 43057-616; OMNH 23035, left maxilla (missing); OMNH 25337, left maxilla (missing)
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cf. Parasaniwa wyomingensis8 Gilmore 1928 squamates OMNH 30882, right dentary fragment; OMNH 30883, dentary fragment; TMM 43057-403, dentary fragment; TMM 43057-266 jaw fragment; TMM 43057-399, jaw fragment
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Anguidae indet. Gray 1825 squamates OMNH 30888, isolated osteoderm; TMM 43057-607, partial right frontal; TMM 43057-282, isolated osteoderm; TMM 43057-608613, isolated osteoderms
Glyptosaurinae indet. Marsh 1872 squamates
Proxestops sp. Gauthier 1982 squamates | |
Restes sp. Gauthier 1982 squamates | |
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"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
"Baena" sp. Leidy 1870 turtle | |
"Goniopholidae indet." = Goniopholididae
"Goniopholidae indet." = Goniopholididae Cope 1875 crocodilian | |
Deinosuchus riograndensis Colbert and Bird 1954 crocodilian | |
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Tyrannosaurinae indet.6 Matthew and Brown 1922 tyrannosaurine TMM 43057-505, caudal vertebra; 43057-142, digit III pedal phalanx
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Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid | |
Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888 ceratopsid | |
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Mammalia | |
Paleomolops langstoni n. sp.2
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Alphadon cf. halleyi2 Sahni 1972 metatherian includes "A. cf. sahnii" Cifelli 1994, which replaced "A. cf. wilsoni"
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Gallolestes agujaensis n. sp.2
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Cimolodon sp. Marsh 1889 multituberculate
Cimolodon cf. electus Fox 1971 multituberculate | |
Neoplagiaulacidae indet. Ameghino 1890 multituberculate | |
Cimolomys clarki Sahni 1972 multituberculate | |
Gnathostomata | |
Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 cartilaginous fish | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Dasyatidae indet. Jordan 1888 whiptail stingray | |
Batomorphii indet. Cappetta 1980 elasmobranch | |
Onchopristis dunklei McNulty and Slaughter 1962 ray
Ischyrhiza avonicola Estes 1964 ray | |
Ptychotrygon sp. Jaekel 1894 ray | |
"Squatirhina americana" = Restesia americana
"Squatirhina americana" = Restesia americana Estes 1964 wobbegong | |
Scapanorhynchus sp. Woodward 1889 goblin shark | |
Hybodontidae indet. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch | |
"Lissodus selachos" = Lonchidion selachos
"Lissodus selachos" = Lonchidion selachos Estes 1964 elasmobranch | |
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