Ochre Hill phytosaur, Dubois (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Fremont County, Wyoming (43.5° N, 109.6° W: paleocoordinates 12.6° N, 39.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Popo Agie Formation (Chugwater Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

• "The specimen's matrix is a brownish red mudstone containing abundant flecks of whitish analcime, a typical lithology of the Popo Agie Formation"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Snyder in 1948; reposited in the FMNH

Primary reference: S. G. Lucas, A. B. Heckert, and L. Rinehart. 2007. A giant skull, ontogenetic variation and taxonomic validity of the Late Triassic phytosaur Parasuchus. In S. G. Lucas, J. A. Spielmann (eds.), The Global Triassic, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 41:222-228 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91474: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 29.09.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Parasuchus sp.
Parasuchus sp. Lydekker 1885 archosaur
FMNH PR 130, partial skull