Rotten Hill locality (SMU Loc. 121): Carnian, Texas
collected by P. A. Murry
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Plesioelliptio sp.
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Lucas et al. 2016 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Trilophosaurus sp.
Case 1928
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Murry 1987 | |||||||||
= Trilophosaurus buettneri
Case 1928
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Lucas et al. 2016 | |||||||||
cf. Postosuchus sp.
Chatterjee 1985
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Lucas et al. 2016 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Shuvosauridae
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Shuvosauridae indet.
Chatterjee 1993
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Lucas et al. 2016 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Desmatosuchus haplocerus
(Cope 1892)
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Lucas et al. 2016 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Aetosauria | ||||||||||
cf. Stagonolepis wellesi
(Long and Ballew 1985)
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Lucas et al. 2016 | |||||||||
original and current combination Calyptosuchus wellesi | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Parasuchidae
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Smilosuchus gregorii
(Camp 1930)
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Lucas et al. 2016 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Vancleavea campi
Long and Murry 1995
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Lucas et al. 2016 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Rhynchosauridae
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Rhynchosauridae indet.
Cope 1871
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Lucas et al. 2016 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Trilophosauridae
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Spinosuchus sp.
Huene 1932
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Lucas et al. 2016 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Sphenodontidae
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Sphenodontidae indet.
Cope 1871
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1 specimen | |||||||||
SMU 67983 | ||||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Metoposauridae
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Apachesaurus gregorii
Hunt 1993
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Lucas et al. 2016 | |||||||||
Metoposaurus sp.
Lydekker 1890
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Murry 1987 | |||||||||
= Buettneria perfecta
Case 1922
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Long and Murry 1995 | |||||||||
synonym of Anaschisma browni | ||||||||||
Dipnomorpha
- Arganodontidae
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Arganodus dorotheae
(Case 1921)
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Lucas et al. 2016 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Semionotiformes
- Semionotidae
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? Hemicalypterus weiri
Schaeffer 1967
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Actinopteri
- Perleidiformes
- Colobodontidae
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Colobodontidae indet.
Stensiö 1916
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Palaeonisciformes
- Redfieldiidae
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Redfieldiidae indet.
Hutchinson 1973
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cf. Lasalichthys sp.
Schaeffer 1967
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Murry 1987 | |||||||||
Palaeonisciformes
- Palaeoniscidae
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cf. Turseodus sp.
Leidy 1857
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Chondrichthyes
- Xenacanthiformes
- Xenacanthidae
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Xenacanthus moorei
(Woodward 1889)
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recombined as Triodus moorei | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
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Neoselachii indet.
Compagno 1977
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Murry 1987 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Orectolobiformes
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? Orectolobiformes indet.
Applegate 1972
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1 specimen | |||||||||
SMU 69649, tooth | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Potter |
Coordinates: | 35.4° North, 102.2° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 3.1° North, 35.9° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Triassic |
Stage: | Carnian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 3 |
Key time interval: | Carnian | ||
Age range of interval: | 237.00000 - 228.00000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | pebbly,red argillaceous conglomerate |
Secondary lithology: | silty mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "clay pebble conglomerate/silty mudstone; weak red 10 R 5/4 with white 2.5 Y 8/2 to pinkish gray 7.5 YR 7/2 reduction haloes < 4 mm diameter; grades upward into fissile mudstone" | |
Environment: | lacustrine delta plain |
Geology comments: "a fluviodeltaic or ephemeral lacustrine environment"; "a progradational lacustrine sequence in which fine-grained lacustrine muds and prodelta mudstones are capped by channel sandstones." |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
Rock censused: | 2700 kg |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Collectors: | P. A. Murry |
Metadata
Also known as: | Sierrita de la Cruz Creek, Sierrita de la Cruize | ||
Database number: | 84271 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, R. Butler, A. Dunhill | Enterer: | M. Carrano, R. Butler, B. Allen |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2008-10-02 13:54:29 | Last modified: | 2021-11-15 16:17:35 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-10-02 13:54:29 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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] |
Secondary references:
24941 | ETE | A. B. Heckert and S. G. Lucas. 2006. Micro- and small vertebrate biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Upper Triassic Chinle Group, southwestern USA. In J. D. Harris, S. G. Lucas, J. A. Spielmann, M. G. Lockley, A. R. C. Milner, J. I. Kirkland (eds.), The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:94-104 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner] |
29483 | ETE | F. v. Huene. 1932. Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte [The fossil reptile order Saurischia, their development and history]. Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie, serie 1 4(1-2):1-361 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
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] |
66825 | S. G. Lucas, L. F. Rinehart, A. B. Heckert, A. P. Hunt, and J. A. Spielmann. 2016. Rotten Hill: A Late Triassic bonebed in the Texas Panhandle, USA. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 72 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen] | |
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] |