Where: Texas (32.0° N, 101.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.7° 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)
• "pre-Tecovas horizon"; now referred to as Colorado City Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gypsiferous, brown, red claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Stovall, Price in 1931
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• OMNH, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
Primary reference: J. W. Stovall and J. B. Wharton Jr. 1936. A new species of phytosaur from Big Spring, Texas. Journal of Geology 44(2):183-192 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135695: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 02.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Angistorhinus alticephalus n. sp.
Angistorhinus alticephalus n. sp. Stovall and Wharton 1936 archosaur OMNH 733, skull and dorsal vertebrae
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