Payne's Waterhole: Early/Lower Campanian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Mosasauridae indet.
Gervais 1852
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1 individual | |||||||||
| TMM 41449-1, nine well preserved vertebrae from the anterior end of the trunk of a single individual | ||||||||||
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= Plioplatecarpinae indet.
Dollo 1884
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Bell et al. 2013 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Brewster |
| Coordinates: | 29.4° North, 103.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.9° North, 77.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | TMM 41449, Big Bend NP | ||
| Database number: | 151430 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion, M. Carrano | Enterer: | J. Tennant, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-10-01 19:10:48 | Last modified: | 2023-08-04 13:51:30 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-10-01 19:10:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 48383 | G. L. Bell Jr., K. R. Barnes, and M. J. Polcyn. 2013. Late Cretaceous mosasauroids (Reptilia, Squamata) of the Big bend region in Texas, USA. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 103:571-581 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/F. Aspromonte] |