MOTTU site 0690, McCarty Ranch: Carnian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Poposaurus gracilis Mehl 1915
1 individual
TTUP-10419
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Crosby
Coordinates: 33.4° North, 101.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.1° North, 35.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:739 meters
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: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Kalgary
Database number:79374
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-03-05 07:00:59 Last modified:2008-03-05 09:00:59
Access level:the public Released:2008-03-05 07:00:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26613.ETE J. C. Weinbaum and A. Hungerbühler. 2007. A revision of Poposaurus gracilis (Archosauria: Suchia) based on two new specimens from the Late Triassic of the southwestern U.S.A. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 81(2):131-145 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]