NMMNH L-3775, Gail (Triassic to of the United States)

Where: Borden County, Texas (32.8° N, 101.5° W: paleocoordinates 5.5° N, 40.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Site could be with the stratigraphically lower Tecovas Formation. Trujillo in general suggested to be of Revueltian (Norian) age based upon tetrapods, but this site is suggested to be of latest Apachean age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, sandy conglomerate

• "brown, clast-supported conglomerate of rounded, flattened, intraformational mud pebbles up to 2 cm in diameter. The matrix is principally a rounded, moderately poorly sorted sublitharenite"

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. B. Heckert, S. G. Lucas, R. Kahle and K. E. Zeigler. 2001. New occurrence of Trilophosaurus (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) from the Upper Triassic of West Texas and its biochronological significance. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 52nd Field Conference, Geology of the Llano Estacado 115-122 [R. Butler/R. Butler/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94492: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 23.02.2010

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Taxonomic list

Gnathostomata
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Reptilia
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Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
NMMNH P-34107, 29956, 29957, 34117
 Diapsida -
Archosauriformes indet.1 Gauthier 1986 archosauromorph
NMMNH P-34106
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae2
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae2 von Huene 1915 archosaur
 Diapsida -
Trilophosaurus jacobsi2 Murry 1987 archosauromorph
 Diapsida - Trilophosauridae
Spinosuchus caseanus3 Huene 1932 archosauromorph
Bivalvia
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unionidae indet. Rafinesque 1820 freshwater mussel