NMMNH Loc. 110, Luciano Mesa (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as Lucianosaurus type; NMMNH L-00110, Bull Canyon, Luciana Mesa

Where: Guadalupe County, New Mexico (35.0° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 43.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bull Canyon Formation (Dockum Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Upper portion of formation, ca. 30 ft below base of Redonda Fm. Possibly middle Norian. Revueltian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; siltstone and conglomeratic mudstone

• "sheetflood deposit"
• "gravelly mudstone" within a siltstone-dominated deposit

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: J. T. Gregory. 1972. Vertebrate faunas of the Dockum Group, Triassic, eastern New Mexico and west Texas. In V. C. Kelly & F. D. Trauger (ed.), New Mexico Geological Society, 23rd Field Conference, East Central New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 23:120-123 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57071: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 01.12.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Osteichthyes
 Ptycholepiformes - Ptycholepididae
cf. Ptycholepis sp.4 Agassiz 1832 ray-finned fish
Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
? Semionotidae indet.1 Woodward 1890
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Redfieldiidae
Redfieldiidae indet.1 Hutchinson 1973
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Apachesaurus sp.1 Hunt 1993 tetrapod
Reptilia
 Diapsida -
Lucianosaurus wildi n. gen. n. sp.2
Lucianosaurus wildi n. gen. n. sp.2 Hunt and Lucas 1993 archosauromorph
 Archosauria -
Archosauria indet.1 Cope 1869 archosaur
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae1
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae1 von Huene 1915 archosaur
 Theropoda -
 Theropoda - Coelophysidae
cf. Coelophysis sp.4 Cope 1889 coelophysoid
 Eosuchia - Kuehneosauridae
cf. Kuehneosauridae indet.1 Romer 1966 crown diapsid
"kuehneosaur-like"
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Dromatheriidae
Pseudotriconodon chatterjeei n. sp.3 Lucas and Oakes 1988 cynodont
UNM MV-518
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
"Spirorbis" sp.1 Daudin 1800
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Darwinulidae
Darwinula sp.1 Brady and Robertson 1885 ostracod