Also known as Dinosaur Valley State Park, Bird Excavation

Where: Somervell County, Texas (32.3° N, 97.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° N, 58.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Glen Rose Formation), Albian (112.0 - 99.6 Ma)

• Near Corbula bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; dolomitic, sandy lime mudstone and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by R. T. Bird in 1938-1940; reposited in the TMM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. T. Bird. 1939. Thunder in his footsteps. Natural History 43:254-261;302 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52535: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 10.08.2005, edited by Matt Carrano