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
Plesioelliptio sp.
Lucas et al. 2016
Reptilia
Trilophosaurus sp. Case 1928
Murry 1987
    = Trilophosaurus buettneri Case 1928
Lucas et al. 2016
cf. Postosuchus sp. Chatterjee 1985
Lucas et al. 2016
Reptilia - Shuvosauridae
Shuvosauridae indet. Chatterjee 1993
Lucas et al. 2016
Reptilia
Desmatosuchus haplocerus (Cope 1892)
Lucas et al. 2016
nomen dubium belonging to Aetosauria
cf. Stagonolepis wellesi (Long and Ballew 1985)
Lucas et al. 2016
original and current combination Calyptosuchus wellesi
Reptilia - Parasuchidae
Smilosuchus gregorii (Camp 1930)
Lucas et al. 2016
Reptilia
Vancleavea campi Long and Murry 1995
Lucas et al. 2016
Reptilia - Rhynchosauridae
Rhynchosauridae indet. Cope 1871
Lucas et al. 2016
Reptilia - Trilophosauridae
Spinosuchus sp. Huene 1932
Lucas et al. 2016
Reptilia - Sphenodontidae
Sphenodontidae indet. Cope 1871
1 specimen
SMU 67983
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Apachesaurus gregorii Hunt 1993
Lucas et al. 2016
Metoposaurus sp. Lydekker 1890
Murry 1987
    = Buettneria perfecta Case 1922
Long and Murry 1995
synonym of Anaschisma browni
Dipnomorpha - Arganodontidae
Arganodus dorotheae (Case 1921)
Lucas et al. 2016
Actinopteri - Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
? Hemicalypterus weiri Schaeffer 1967
Actinopteri - Perleidiformes - Colobodontidae
Colobodontidae indet. Stensiö 1916
Palaeonisciformes - Redfieldiidae
Redfieldiidae indet. Hutchinson 1973
cf. Lasalichthys sp. Schaeffer 1967
Murry 1987
Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
cf. Turseodus sp. Leidy 1857
Chondrichthyes - Xenacanthiformes - Xenacanthidae
Xenacanthus moorei (Woodward 1889)
recombined as Triodus moorei
Chondrichthyes
Neoselachii indet. Compagno 1977
Murry 1987
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes
? Orectolobiformes indet. Applegate 1972
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
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chinle Formation:Tecovas
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
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:

24941ETE 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]
29483ETE 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]
14122ETE 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]
12932ETE 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]