Headquarters Site (MOTT 3892) (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Garza County, Texas (33.5° N, 101.4° W: paleocoordinates 8.2° N, 41.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 12-13 Member (Cooper Canyon Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray siltstone and lithified, fine-grained, conglomeratic sandstone

• Overbank deposits and channel sandstones.
• Measured section is 6.0 m thick.

•0 -> 1.4 m: Medium reddish brown (MRB 4/6) clay-rich siltstone with light greenish gray (5GY 8/1) mottling. The upper surface of the unit is unconformable with unit 2. Overbank deposits;

•1.4 -> 2.2 m: Interbedded mudstone, sandstone, and conglomerate. The lower part is very thin (about 5 cm thick) discontinuous lenses of light gray (N7) horizontal planar bedded very fine to fine-grained sandstone interbedded with clay-rich medium reddish brown (MRB 4/6) siltstone to very fine-grained sandstone. This is capped with a more laterally extensive granule pebble conglomerate bed about the same thickness as the sandstone lenses, which is the actual bone bed. Material is derived from the upper and lower surfaces of the conglomerate. Small channel sandstone and sheet sand;

•2.2 m-> 4.4: Medium reddish brown (MRB 4/6) clay-rich siltstone with light greenish gray (5GY 8/1) reduction mottling, identical to unit 1. Channel sandstone;

•4.4 -> 6.0 m: Light gray (N7) fine to medium-grained clast-supported sandstone with horizontal planar bedding. Channel sandstone. The top is truncated by Quaternary alluvium.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. W. Martz. 2008. Lithostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, and vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Dockum Group (Upper Triassic), of southern Garza County, West Texas. Unpublished PhD thesis, Texas Tech University. 1-504 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 218144: authorized by Bryan Gee, entered by Bryan Gee on 19.02.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
cf. Procoelosaurus sp.
TTU P-10836, vertebra
Pseudosuchia indet.
TTU P-11393, right tibia (proximal end)
Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Aetosaurinae indet. Baur 1887 aetosaur
TTU P-11664, lateral osteoderm
Typothorax coccinarum Cope 1875 aetosaur
TTU P-11857, TTU P-12108 (paramedian osteoderms)
 Pseudosuchia - Shuvosauridae
Shuvosauridae indet. archosaur
TTU P-11865, vertebral centrum
 Phytosauria -
"Parasuchia indet." = Phytosauria
"Parasuchia indet." = Phytosauria Jaeger 1828 phytosaur
TTU P-11223, ungual/distal metapodial; TTU P-11854, left ilium; TTU P-11855, vertebrae; TTU P-11856, left femur
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Pseudopalatus sp." = Machaeroprosopus
"Pseudopalatus sp." = Machaeroprosopus Mehl 1916 archosaur
TTU P-11880, squamosal
 Diapsida - Drepanosauridae
Drepanosauridae indet. Berman and Reisz 1992 diapsid
TTU P-10812, TTU P-10813, TTU P-10814, TTU P-10815, TTU P-10817, TTU P-11156 (cervical vertebrae); TTU P-10889, ungual; TTU P-10894, TTU P-10896 (tail claws); TTU P-10898, left ilium; TTU P-11155, vertebral fragment