List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Cyclotosauridae
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Quasicyclotosaurus campi n. gen., n. sp.
Schoch 2000
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| UCMP 37754, complete skull | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Apache |
| Coordinates: | 34.9° North, 110.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.2° North, 38.8° 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 |
| 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: | 95091 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-04-06 06:38:13 | Last modified: | 2012-10-25 03:37:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-04-06 06:38:13 |
| 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] |