Elkins Place Bone Bed (UMMP) (Triassic to of the United States)

Also known as ETE Locality 1541

Where: Scurry County, Texas (33.0° N, 100.9° W: paleocoordinates 5.7° N, 39.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Rosa Sandstone Formation (Dockum Group), Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• originally described as "Camp Springs Formation". May be the Santa Rosa Sandstone of the basal Dockum according to Martz (2008: unpublished PhD thesis, Texas Tech University)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; gray sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: .

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Baker, UMMP, Case in 1930, 1931; reposited in the UMMP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: E. C. Case. 1931. Description of a new species of Buettneria, with a discussion of the brain case. Contributions from the Museum of Palaeontology, University of Michigan 3(11):187-206 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22666: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 17.04.2001, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Putative dinosaur teeth are mentioned by Case (1932) but not described
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Buettneria bakeri n. sp." = Metoposaurus bakeri
"Buettneria bakeri n. sp." = Metoposaurus bakeri Case 1931 tetrapod
UMMP 13055 (holotype), skull. UMMP 14154, 14098 (paratypes), skulls. UMMP 13820, 13823, 13822, 13596, 14262, skulls. UMMP 13823, 13944, 13946, 13947, 13948, 13949, 12970, 13945, lower jaws. Many additional specimens: see Long & Murry (1995)
Reptilia
 Phytosauria -
Phytosauria indet. Jaeger 1828 archosaur
Teeth and fragmentary lower jaw