List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Rhynchosauridae indet.
Cope 1871
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Elder 1987 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Rhyncosauridae | ||||||||||
= Otischalkia elderae
Hunt and Lucas 1991
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Hunt and Lucas 1991 | |||||||||
TMM 31185-92, 31185-93, premaxillae | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Phytosauridae
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Phytosauria indet.
(Jaeger 1828)
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6 specimens | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Phytosauridae | ||||||||||
= Phytosauridae indet.
Jaeger 1828
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Elder 1987 | |||||||||
replaced by Mystriosuchinae | ||||||||||
TMM 31185-7, 18, 19, 20, 30, 37, 57, 69, 89, 95 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Parasuchidae
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Paleorhinus bransoni
Williston 1904
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Long and Murry 1995 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
recombined as Parasuchus bransoni | ||||||||||
TMM 31185-11, 38 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Lucasuchus hunti
Long and Murry 1995
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Long and Murry 1995 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
TMM 31185-65, 66 | ||||||||||
Desmatosuchus sp.
Case 1920
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Anonymous 1940 | 6 specimens | ||||||||
= Typothorax meadei n. sp.
Sawin 1947
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Sawin 1947 | |||||||||
recombined as Longosuchus meadei | ||||||||||
TMM 31185-98, fairly complete skull (holotype). TMM 31185-97, 31185-84a, 31185-84b, 31185-84, 31185-40 | ||||||||||
Trilophosaurus sp.
Case 1928
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Elder 1987 | |||||||||
= Trilophosaurus buettneri
Case 1928
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Heckert et al. 2006 | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Metoposauridae
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Buettneria sp.
Case 1922
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Anonymous 1940 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
= Metoposauridae indet.
Watson 1919
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Elder 1987 | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Metoposauridae | ||||||||||
= Buettneria perfecta
Case 1922
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Long and Murry 1995 | |||||||||
synonym of Anaschisma browni | ||||||||||
TMM 31185-24, 29, 41 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Howard |
Coordinates: | 32.2° North, 101.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 4.9° North, 40.0° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Dockum | Formation: | Colorado City | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: variously referred to te Iatan or Colorado City Members of the Dockum Group |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | red mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 0 | |
Environment: | crevasse splay |
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: floodplain ETE event: flood, ETE env comment: crev splay |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Lagerst�tten type: | concentrate |
Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection | ||
Collection size: | 17 specimens | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taphonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | WPA | Collection dates: | 1939–1940 |
Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 896, 896, 900, 905, 899, 901, 915, 916, 914, 907, 894, 895, 902, 909, 913, 908, 904, 906, 898, 903, 897, 911, 910, 912, 917, 918, 920, 919, ; ETE museum list: |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 1582, TMM Locality 31185, WPA, Work Project No. 13352 | ||
Database number: | 22707 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer, R. Butler, M. Carrano | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, R. Butler, M. Carrano |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | taphonomy,vertebrate |
Created: | 2001-05-29 01:00:00 | Last modified: | 2022-07-15 11:10:25 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-05-29 01:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
71451. | Anonymous. 1939. The third quarterly report covering the quarter ending December 31,1939 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 1-47 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
71464 | 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] | |
14199 | ETE | M. T. Carrano. 2025. Taxonomic opinions on the Dinosauria. [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
5936 | ETE 1717 | R. L. Elder. 1987. Taphonomy and paleoecology of the Dockum Group, Howard County, Texas. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 22(1):85-94 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Carrano] |
32141 | A. B. Heckert, S. G. Lucas, L. F. Rinehart, J. A. Spielmann, A. P. Hunt and R. Kahle. 2006. Revision of the archosauromorph reptile Trilophosaurus, with a description of the first skull of Trilophosaurus jacobsi, from the Upper Triassic Chinle Group, West Texas, USA. Palaeontology 49(3):621-640 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
35714 | A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1991. A new rhynchosaur from the Upper Triassic of West Texas, and the biochronology of Late Triassic rhynchosaurs. Palaeontology 34(4):927-938 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
14122 | ETE | R. A. Long and P. A. Murry. 1995. Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) Tetrapods from the Southwestern United States. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 4:1-254 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner] |
13249 | ETE | P. A. Murry. 1986. Vertebrate paleontology of the Dockum Group, western Texas and eastern New Mexico. In K. Padian (ed.), The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Change Across the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 109-137 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
78626 | P. A. Murry. 1987. Notes on the stratigraphy and paleontology of the Upper Triassic Dockum Group. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 22:7-84 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
12932 | ETE | P. A. Murry. 1989. Geology and paleontology of the Dockum Formation (Upper Triassic), west Texas and eastern New Mexico. In S. G. Lucas and A. P. Hunt (eds.), Dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs in the American Southwest, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque 102-144 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
58720 | P. A. Murry and R. A. Long. 1997. Dockum Group. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 191-193 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
43405 | H. J. Sawin. 1947. The pseudosuchian reptile Typothorax meadei. Journal of Paleontology 21:201-238 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |