WPA Quarry L1, Talley Mountain: Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian, Texas
collected by W. Strain & WPA 1938-1939

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Ceratopsidae
Chasmosaurus mariscalensis Lehman 1989
10 specimens
recombined as Agujaceratops mariscalensis
(6 measurements)
Reptilia - Pachycephalosauridae
Texacephale langstoni n. gen., n. sp. Longrich et al. 2010
Longrich et al. 2010 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Pachycephalosauridae
LSUMNS 20010, fused frontoparietals
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Lambeosaurinae indet. Parks 1923
Davies 1983 1 specimen
UTEP P.37.7.015
? Lambeosaurinae indet. Parks 1923
Davies 1983 3 specimens
UTEP P.37.7.002, 019, 285
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
78 specimens
UTEP P/37/7/007, 022, 027, 030, 033-034, 036, 038, 047, 200, 281-282, 287-288, 292-296, 298-299, 302-316, 319-321, 323-326, 328-368, 376, 378
    = Saurolophinae indet. Brown 1914
Prieto-Márquez 2010
Hadrosaurinae indet. Lambe 1918
Davies 1983 1 specimen
UTEP P.37.7.291
? Kritosaurus sp. Brown 1910
Davies 1983 2 specimens
UTEP P.37.7.024, 286
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
ETE occurrence; species: Theropoda
Reptilia - Caenagnathidae
Chirostenotes sp. Gilmore 1924
Longrich et al. 2013 2 specimens
UTEP B38 L-3, femur; TMM 42920-2, manual ungual II.
Reptilia - Avetheropoda
Carnosauria indet. Huene 1920
ETE occurrence; species: Carnosauria
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861
ETE occurrence; species: Amiidae
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825
ETE occurrence; species: Lepisosteidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Brewster
Coordinates: 29.1° North, 103.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.6° North, 76.7° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
*Period:Jurassic
*International age/stage:Tithonian - Maastrichtian
Key time interval:Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Aguja Member:Upper Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower part of member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 0
Environment:fine channel fill
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_deltaic, ETE sed env 2: ab_chan_fill ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Lagerst�tten type:concentrate
Degree of concentration:-single event
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Collection size:342 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taphonomic analysis
Collectors:W. Strain & WPA Collection dates:1938-1939
Collection method comments: ETE reference list: 853, 672, 675, 776, 783, 796, 682, 683, 693, 893, 876, 765, 721, 762, 757, 742, 740, 707, 764, 761, 725, 722, 717, 766, 745, 741, 744, 844, 847, 843, 845, 846, 848, 851, 849, 734, 782, 802, 768, 816, 781, 673, 793, 841, 812, 786, 772, 794, 801, 809
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 1584, WPA 1 bonebed, Fresno Creek
Database number:22709
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer, M. Carrano, R. Butler Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, M. Carrano, R. Butler
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:taphonomy,vertebrate
Created:2001-05-29 01:00:00 Last modified:2023-09-08 14:47:30
Access level:the public Released:2001-05-29 01:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
5684.ETE 1440T. M. Lehman. 1982. A ceratopsian bone bed from the Aguja Formation (Upper Cretaceous) Big Bend National Park, Texas. [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

63793 K. L. Davies. 1983. Hadrosaurian Dinosaurs of Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. viii-235 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]
85562 T. M. Lehman. 1985. Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Paleontology of Upper Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian) Sedimentary Rocks in Trans-Pecos Texas xiv-299 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14107ETE T. M. Lehman. 1989. Chasmosaurus mariscalensis, sp. nov., a new ceratopsian dinosaur from Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(2):137-162 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13599ETE T. M. Lehman. 1990. The ceratopsian subfamily Chasmosaurinae: sexual dimorphism and systematics. In K. Carpenter and P. J. Currie (eds.), Dinosaur Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 211-229 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
48987 T. M. Lehman. 2007. Growth and population age structure in the horned dinosaur Chasmosaurus. In K. Carpenter (ed.), Horns and Beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithischian Dinosaurs 259-317 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
46506 N. R. Longrich, K. Barnes, S. Clark and L. Millar. 2013. Caenagnathidae from the upper Campanian Aguja Formation of west Texas, and a revision of the Caenagnathinae. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 54(1):23-49 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
32091 N. R. Longrich, J. Sankey, and D. Tanke. 2010. Texacephale langstoni, a new genus of pachycephalosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the upper Campanian Aguja Formation, southern Texas, USA. Cretaceous Research 31:274-284 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]
53090 A. Prieto-Márquez. 2010. Global phylogeny of Hadrosauridae (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) using parsimony and Bayesian methods. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 159(2):435-502 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
84543 J. S. Tweet and V. L. Santucci. 2018. An inventory of non-avian dinosaurs from National Park Service areas. In S. G. Lucas & R. M. Sullivan (ed.), Fossil Record 6. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 79:703-730 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]