Also known as Small Reptile Quarry, ETE Locality 1580, NMMNH L-4208, Trilophosaurus Quarry 2, 5936, Work Project No.13352

Where: Howard County, Texas (32.2° N, 101.3° W: paleocoordinates 4.9° N, 40.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Colorado City Formation (Dockum Group), Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• "continental red-bed sequence"; variously referred to the Iatan or Colorado City Members of the Dockum Group; low in Dockum Group. ca. 15 ft lower than site 1.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; red, silty mudstone and lenticular, conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by WPA in 1939–1941; reposited in the NMMNH, TMM

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 1003, 770, 673, 793, 786, 772, 794, 801, 769, 771, 828, 827, 842, 857, 715, 723, 668, 773, 751, 753, 754, 891, 758, 719, 714, 728, 755, 718, 800, 799, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12942: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 11.01.2002, edited by Richard Butler, Matthew Carrano and Bryan Gee

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