Where: Randall County, Texas (35.0° N, 101.7° W: paleocoordinates 7.7° N, 40.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Trujillo Formation (Dockum Group), Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• upper fossiliferous level
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; micaceous, gray siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: P. A. Murry. 1989. Geology and paleontology of the Dockum Formation (Upper Triassic), west Texas and eastern New Mexico. In S. G. Lucas and A. P. Hunt (eds.), Dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs in the American Southwest, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque 102-144 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 84270: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.10.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae | |
Sanmiguelia sp. Brown 1956 palm | |
Actinopteri | |
cf. Semionotus sp. Agassiz 1832 | |
Coelacanthimorpha | |
Coelacanthidae indet. Agassiz 1843 coelacanth |