Hite Crossing: Smithian, Utah
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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cf. Parotosaurus helgolandicus
(Schroeder 1913)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| UCMP uncatalogued, complete skull | ||||||||||
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= Parotosuchus informal nov. spec.
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Schoch and Milner 2000 | |||||||||
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= Parotosuchus helgolandicus
Schroeder 1913
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Lucas and Schoch 2002 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Utah |
| Coordinates: | 37.9° North, 110.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 7.4° North, 36.7° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Early Triassic |
| Stage: | Olenekian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Smithian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 251.2 - 248.9 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Moenkopi | Member: | Torrey | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "In SE Utah, the Torrey Member immediately overlies the Sinbad Limestone, a marine unit that yields Smithian ammonoids...The Virgin Limestone, of early Spathian age, may correlate to the uppermost part of the Torrey Member. Therefore we regard the Torrey as primarily of Smithian age" (Lucas & Schoch 2002: Lethaia 35: 97–106) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Indian Creek | ||
| Database number: | 135406 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler, A. Dunhill | Enterer: | R. Butler, B. Allen |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-10-24 22:57:49 | Last modified: | 2012-10-24 06:58:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-10-24 22:57:49 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 43344. | S. P. Welles. 1967. Arizona's giant amphibians. Pacific Discovery 20:10-15 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |
Secondary references:
| 32399 | S. G. Lucas and R. R. Schoch. 2002. Triassic temnospondyl biostratigraphy, biochronology and correlation of the German Bundsandstein and North American Moenkopi Formation. Lethaia 35:97-106 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 28828 | R. Schoch and A. R. Milner. 2000. Stereospondyli. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie - Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 3B:1-203 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] |