Sand Creek breaks (Triassic to of the United States)

Where: Crosby County, Texas (33.5° N, 101.1° W: paleocoordinates 6.2° N, 39.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tecovas Formation (Dockum Group), Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; poorly lithified, red, conglomeratic mudstone

• "an old river-wash"
• "a dark-red, mud-lump conglomerate with some finer material"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. C. Case; reposited in the UMMP

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: E. C. Case. 1922. New reptiles and stegocephalians from the Upper Triassic of western Texas. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication 221:1-84 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71980: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.05.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Buettneria perfecta n. gen. n. sp." = Anaschisma browni
"Buettneria perfecta n. gen. n. sp." = Anaschisma browni Branson 1905 tetrapod
UMMP 7475, 7449, 7448, 7265, 7364, 7366-68, 7469
Reptilia
 Phytosauria -
"Parasuchia indet." = Phytosauria
"Parasuchia indet." = Phytosauria Jaeger 1828 phytosaur
UMMP 7332, 7244