Rotten Hill/Herring Ranch (UMMP/PPHM WT) (Triassic to of the United States)

Where: Potter County, Texas (35.4° N, 102.2° W: paleocoordinates 8.2° N, 40.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tecovas Formation (Dockum Group), Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, blue claystone

• "purple clay"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by E. C. Case in 1931; reposited in the UMMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: E. C. Case. 1932. On the caudal region of Coelophysis sp. and on some new or little known forms from the Upper Triassic of western Texas. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 4(3):81-91 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 71982: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.05.2007, edited by Richard Butler and Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• also includes coprolites and teeth of unknown affinity
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni3, Apachesaurus gregorii3
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni3 Branson 1905 tetrapod
Apachesaurus gregorii3 Hunt 1993 tetrapod
Reptilia
 Diapsida - Trilophosauridae
Spinosuchus caseanus1 Huene 1932 archosauromorph
WT 8/825, three dorsal vertebrae
 Rhynchosauria - Rhynchosauridae
Otischalkia elderae3 Hunt and Lucas 1991 rhynchosaur
 Loricata - Rauisuchidae
Postosuchus kirkpatricki2 Chatterjee 1985 rauisuchid
UMMP 13670
 Pseudosuchia -
"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus3
"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus3 Cope 1892 aetosaur
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Smilosuchus gregorii3 Camp 1930 archosaur