southwestern flanks of Hen Egg Mountain: Middle Santonian - Late/Upper Santonian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Clidastes liodontus
Merriam 1894
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1 individual | |||||||||
TMM 43343-1, complete skull and vertebrae | ||||||||||
Ectenosaurus sp.
Russell 1967
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1 specimen | |||||||||
SMU76350 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Brewster |
Coordinates: | 29.4° North, 103.5° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 33.6° North, 73.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Santonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
Key time interval: | Middle Santonian - Late/Upper Santonian | Other zone: | |
Age range of interval: | 85.80000 - 83.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | TMM 43343, Big Bend NP | ||
Database number: | 151427 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Tennant |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2013-10-01 19:04:21 | Last modified: | 2021-07-01 11:04:09 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-10-01 19:04:21 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
48383. | G. L. Bell Jr., K. R. Barnes, and M. J. Polcyn. 2013. Late Cretaceous mosasauroids (Reptilia, Squamata) of the Big bend region in Texas, USA. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 103:571-581 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/F. Aspromonte] |