Also known as Home Creek, SMU Loc. 120, Holmes Creek

Where: Crosby County, Texas (33.4° N, 101.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.1° N, 41.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tecovas Formation (Dockum Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• approx. 4 m above base of Dockum Gp, low in Tecovas Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; paleosol/pedogenic, gray, green, red, calcareous, carbonaceous siltstone and paleosol/pedogenic, pebbly, gray, green, red, argillaceous, calcareous conglomerate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve,

Primary reference: P. A. Murry. 1986. Vertebrate paleontology of the Dockum Group, western Texas and eastern New Mexico. In K. Padian (ed.), The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Change Across the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 109-137 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 48424: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.03.2005, edited by Richard Butler

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