Also known as TMM 40535 (Ray's Annex), 40536 (Ray's Bonebed/Needle's Eye), 40537 (Ray's Bone Bed West/Taeniodont Locality), 40148, 40642, 41368, 41367, 41273; T1

Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.5° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 84.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Black Peaks Formation, Torrejonian (63.8 - 60.9 Ma)

• Torrejonian based on Leslie et al. (2018)

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•in a reversed zone interpreted as chron C26r based on the position of the Paleocene-Eocene boundary higher in the section, and on being just below a single Class I site of normal polarity interpreted as C26n

•75 ft above base of formation

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. Wilson, M. McKenna, G. Whitaker in 1952, 1962–1963; reposited in the TMM

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. A. Wilson. 1967. Early Tertiary mammals. In R. A. Maxwell, J. T. Lonsdale, R. T. Hazzard, & J. A. Wilson (eds.), Geology of Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas. The University of Texas Publication 6711:157-169 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 14975: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Philip Mannion, Matthew Carrano and K. Christopher Beard

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