Also known as White River
Where: Crosby County, Texas (33.6° N, 101.1° W: paleocoordinates 6.3° N, 39.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tecovas Formation (Dockum Group), Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; sandy claystone and gypsiferous, pyritic, yellow, sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E. Case, W. Buettner in 1917, 1925; reposited in the UMMP
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: E. C. Case. 1920. Preliminary description of a new suborder of phytosaurian reptiles with a description of a new species of Phytosaurus. Journal of Geology 28(6):524-535 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71977: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.05.2007, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Desmatosuchus spurensis n. sp. Case 1920 aetosaur UMMP 7476 (holotype), partial skeleton. UMMP 7504, second individual. UMMP 7331, lateral plates
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