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1.5 miles south of Wax Works , Brewster County, Texas, USA
Lat/Long (Decimal) | 29.1566,-103.156 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | estimated from map |
Given Location | Texas, United States |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Brewster County, Texas, USA |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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1.5 miles south of Wax Works (AMNH) | Coombs W. P. (1978) | Aguja | not reported | 72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | |
3 miles east of Chisos | Database A. M. N. H (2015) | Aguja | "Rattlesnake Beds" | not reported | 72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Ceratopsidae family | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Ceratopsidae | 72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Panoplosaurus sp. genus | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Nodosauridae : Panoplosaurus | 72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Crocodylia order | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Crocodylia | 72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Dinosauria order | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria | 72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Testudinata unranked clade | Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Protochelys : Testudinata | 72.1 - 66 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
References
Coombs W. P. (1978) The families of the ornithischian dinosaur order Ankylosauria, Palaeontology 21 1, 143-170 |
Database A. M. N. H (2015) |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!