LSUMG 489, Talley Mountain: Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Tyrannosaurid indet.
Sankey 2008
LSUMG 489:5580
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
Sankey 2008
Mammalia
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Sankey 2008
Mammalia - Alphadontidae
Alphadon sp. Simpson 1927
Sankey and Gose 2001 1 specimen
LSUMG 489:5679
Mammalia - Multituberculata
Multituberculata indet. Cope 1884
Sankey 2008
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Cimolomys sp. Marsh 1889
Sankey and Gose 2001 1 specimen
LSUMG 489:5681
Mammalia - Multituberculata
cf. Paracimexomys sp. Archibald 1982
Sankey and Gose 2001 1 specimen
LSUMG 489:5684
Mammalia
Marsupialia indet. Illiger 1811
Sankey 2008
Reptilia - Anguidae
Glyptosauridae indet. (Marsh 1872)
Sankey 2008
original and current combination Glyptosaurinae
Reptilia - Lacertilia
Lacertilia indet. Owen 1842
Sankey 2008
Reptilia - Teiidae
Teiidae sp. Gray 1827
Sankey 2008
LSUMG 489:5656
Reptilia
Scincomorpha indet. (Camp 1923)
Sankey 2008
Reptilia - Chamopsiidae
Chamops sp. Marsh 1892
Sankey 2008
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
1 specimen
LSUMG 489:6239
    = Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906
Sankey et al. 2005
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906
2 specimens
LSUMG 489:5580, 6236
Reptilia
cf. Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
Sankey 2008
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
cf. Richardoestesia sp. Currie et al. 1990
Sankey 2008
Richardoestesia gilmorei Currie et al. 1990
Sankey 2008
Richardoestesia cf. gilmorei Currie et al. 1990
1 specimen
LSUMG 489:6237
    = Richardoestesia isosceles Sankey 2001
Sankey et al. 2005
Richardoestesia isosceles n. sp. Sankey 2001
3 specimens
LSUMG 489:6238, 6233, 6235, 6050
Saurornitholestes cf. langstoni Sues 1978
1 specimen
LSUMG 489:5659
    = Saurornitholestinae indet. Longrich and Currie 2009
Larson and Currie 2013
Saurornitholestes indet. Sues 1978
Sankey 2008
Richardoestesia isosceles Sankey 2001
1 specimen
LSUMG 489:6234
    = Saurornitholestes cf. langstoni Sues 1978
Sankey et al. 2005
Reptilia - Ornithischia
Ornithischia indet. Seeley 1888
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
2 specimens
LSUMG 489:5538, 5700
Reptilia - Pachycephalosauridae
Pachycephalosauridae indet. Sternberg 1945
Sankey 2008
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Sankey 2008
LSUMG 489:5564, 5582 [entered as Crocodylian indet.]
Reptilia
Deinosuchus riograndensis (Colbert and Bird 1954)
Sankey 2008
original and current combination Phobosuchus riograndensis
LSUMG 489:5672
Brachychampsa sp. Gilmore 1911
Sankey 2008
LSUMG 489:5658
Reptilia - Goniopholididae
Goniopholidae indet. (Cope 1875)
Sankey 2008
original and current combination Goniopholididae
LSUMG 489:5673, 5608
Amphibia
Amphibia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Sankey 2008
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpeton sp. Estes and Hoffstetter 1976
Sankey 2008
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Scapherpeton sp. Cope 1876
Sankey 2008
LSUMG 489:5694
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825
Sankey 2008
LSUMG 489:5732
Actinopteri - Elopiformes - Phyllodontidae
Phyllodontidae indet. Sauvage 1875
Sankey 2008
LSUMG 489:5577
Chondrichthyes
Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
Sankey 2008
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Onchopristis dunklei McNulty and Slaughter 1962
Sankey 2008
LSUMG 489:5667
Ischyrhiza sp. Leidy 1856
Sankey 2008
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Ptychotrygonidae
Ptychotrygon sp. Jaekel 1894
Sankey 2008
LSUMG 489:5670
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Orectolobidae
Squatirhina americana Estes 1964
Sankey 2008
recombined as Restesia americana
LSUMG 489:5689
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus texanus (Roemer 1852)
Sankey 2008
LSUMG 489:5626,5666
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834
Sankey 2008
LSUMG 489:5627
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Lonchidiidae
Lissodus selachos (Estes 1964)
Sankey 2008
original and current combination Lonchidion selachos
LSUMG 489:5692
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatidae indet. Jordan 1888
Sankey 2008
LSUMG 489:5648
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Brewster
Coordinates: 29.1° North, 103.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.5° North, 76.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
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 Member:Upper Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:paleosol/pedogenic,intraclastic sandy conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "carbonate-cemented, pedogenic-nodule, sandstone conglomerates containing numerous clasts of clay, pedogenic nodules..."
Environment:channel lag
Geology comments: "lag deposits from the base of fluvial channels"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:VL-489, Judy's Conglomerate
Database number:68003
Authorizer:M. Carrano, M. Bell Enterer:M. Carrano, M. Bell
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Subset of collection #:14488
Created:2006-12-21 08:19:25 Last modified:2022-02-24 04:43:29
Access level:the public Released:2006-12-21 08:19:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11752.ETE J. T. Sankey. 2001. Late Campanian southern dinosaurs, Aguja Formation, Big Bend, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 75(1):208-215 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

48570 D. W. Larson and P. J. Currie. 2013. Multivariate analyses of small theropod dinosaur teeth and implications for paleoecological turnover through time. PLoS ONE 8(1):e54329:1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
46717 J. T. Sankey. 2008. Vertebrate paleoecology from microsites, Talley Mountain, Upper Aguja Formation (Late Cretaceous), Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA. In J. T. Sankey, S. Baszio (eds.), Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages: Their Role in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography 61-77 [M. Bell/M. Bell/M. Carrano]
18377ETE J. T. Sankey and W. Gose. 2001. Late Cretaceous mammals and magnetostratigraphy, Big Bend, Texas. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University 77:1-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
19433ETE J. T. Sankey, B. R. Standhardt, and J. A. Schiebout. 2005. Theropod teeth from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian), Big Bed National Park, Texas. In K. Carpenter (ed.), The Carnivorous Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 127-152 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]