Payne's Waterhole (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Plioplatecarpinae indet. Dollo 1884 mosasaur
TMM 41449-1, nine well preserved vertebrae from the anterior end of the trunk of a single individual