NE of Rotten Hill, breaks of Cerita de la Cruz Creek (Triassic to of the United States)

Also known as Sierrita de la Cruize

Where: Oldham County, Texas (35.4° N, 102.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.2° N, 40.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UMMP in 1931; reposited in the UMMP

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: E. C. Case. 1932. A perfectly preserved segment of the armor of a phytosaur, with associated vertebrae. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 4:57-80 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135662: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 01.11.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Calyptosuchus wellesi n. gen. n. sp.
Calyptosuchus wellesi n. gen. n. sp. Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur
UMMP 13950, articulated carapace