List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Eocyclotosaurus wellesi
Schoch 2000
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4 specimens | |||||||||
UCMP 41632a, UCMP 41632b, 42841, 57548, skull material | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Apache |
Coordinates: | 34.6° North, 109.6° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 2.7° North, 38.5° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Moenkopi | Member: | Holbrook | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Lucas & Schoch (2002: Lethaia 35: 97-106) inferred the Holbrook member to be earliest Anisian (Aegean–Bithynian) in age based upon tetrapod biostratigraphy (Eocyclotosaurus used to correlate Holbrook Member to German Upper Bundsandstein) and magnetostratigraphy |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Abundance in sediment: | abundant |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | survey of museum collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | UCMP | ||
Collectors: | S. Welles | Collection dates: | 1938-1966 |
Metadata
Database number: | 95088 | ||
Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2010-04-06 06:10:29 | Last modified: | 2012-10-25 03:36:30 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-04-06 06:10:29 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
32381. | R. R. Schoch. 2000. The status and osteology of two new cyclotosaurid amphibians from the Upper Moenkopi Formation of Arizona (Amphibia: Temnospondyli; Middle Triassic). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 216(3):387-411 [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] |