Brunson Ranch, Cedar Mountain (Triassic to of the United States)

Also known as TMM Site 2, TMM 31173, WPA, Work Project No. 15995

Where: Crosby County, Texas (33.6° N, 101.2° W: paleocoordinates 6.3° N, 39.8° 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: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by WPA in 1940–1941; reposited in the TMM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: Anonymous. 1940. The sixth quarterly report covering the quarter ending September 30, 1940 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-44 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98596: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 13.10.2010, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Leptosuchus crosbiensis1 Case 1922 archosaur
 Pseudosuchia -
Poposaurus gracilis1, "Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus1
Poposaurus gracilis1 Mehl 1915 archosaur
"indeterminate thecodont"
"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus1 Cope 1892 aetosaur
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi1
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi1 Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur
TMM 31173-46, vertebra
 Dinosauria -
 Theropoda - Coelophysidae
Coelophysis sp. Cope 1889 coelophysoid
Osteichthyes
  -
"Xenognathus sp." = Colognathus3
"Xenognathus sp." = Colognathus3 Case 1933 amniote
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Buettneria ? perfecta" = Anaschisma browni2
"Buettneria ? perfecta" = Anaschisma browni2 Branson 1905 tetrapod
TMM 31173-23