Also known as TMM 41449, Big Bend NP
Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.4° N, 103.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 77.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pen Formation (Terlingua Group), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Approximately 30 m below top of the unit
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 151430: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 01.10.2013, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Plioplatecarpinae indet. Dollo 1884 mosasaur TMM 41449-1, nine well preserved vertebrae from the anterior end of the trunk of a single individual
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