LSUMG 726: Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Baenidae
Baenidae indet. Cope 1882
Sankey 2006 5 specimens
LSUMG 726:17715, 17602, 6208, 17712, 17733
Reptilia - Testudines
Helopanoplia sp. Hay 1908
Sankey 2006 1 specimen
LSUMG 726:17716
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
Sankey 2006 74 specimens
LSUMG 726:17644, 17639, 8287, 6203, 17627, 8431, 17601, 17721
Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp. Cope 1868
Sankey 2006 5 specimens
LSUMG 726:17707, 17709
Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea
cf. Hoplochelys sp. Hay 1908
Sankey 2006 1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Basilemys sp. Hay 1902
Sankey 2006 4 specimens
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969
Sankey 2010 1 specimen
LSUMG 726:6212
Saurornitholestes cf. langstoni Sues 1978
5 specimens
LSUMG 726:5923, 5924, 5928, 6204, 6218
    = Saurornitholestinae indet. Longrich and Currie 2009
Larson and Currie 2013
Reptilia - Tyrannosauridae
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906
7 specimens
LSUMG 726:6201, 6209, 6219-6221, 17896, 8236, 8217
Reptilia - Ornithomimidae
Ornithomimidae indet. Marsh 1890
Sankey 2010 1 specimen
LSUMG 726:8347
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Brewster
Coordinates: 29.2° North, 103.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.7° North, 77.1° 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
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:"floodplain"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:VL-726
Database number:68012
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-12-21 10:55:29 Last modified:2022-02-24 04:47:57
Access level:the public Released:2006-12-21 10:55:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
19433.ETE 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]

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]
25981ETE J. T. Sankey. 2006. Turtles of the upper Aguja Formation (late Campanian), Big Bend National Park, Texas. In S. G. Lucas and R. M. Sullivan (eds.), Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:235-243 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
36226ETE J. T. Sankey. 2010. Faunal composition and significance of high-diversity, mixed bonebeds containing Agujaceratops mariscalensis and other dinosaurs, Aguja Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Big Bend, Texas. In M. J. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, D. A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 520-537 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]