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
•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 Unpublished PhD thesis, Texas Tech University. 1-504 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details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
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Reptilia | |
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"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
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"Pseudopalatus sp." = Machaeroprosopus
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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
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