Schaeffer Fish Quarry, Otis Chalk (Triassic to of the United States)

Where: Howard County, Texas (32.2° N, 100.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.8° N, 39.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• At approximately the same stratigraphic level as nearby "Otis Chalk" quarries

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; red siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1954, 1963; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: B. Schaeffer. 1967. Late Triassic fishes from the western United States. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135(6):285-342 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135713: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 05.11.2012, edited by Bryan Gee

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes -
Palaeonisciformes indet. Hay 1902
AMNH 5720, 5662, material potentially representing 2-3 unnamed species
 Palaeonisciformes - Redfieldiidae
Lasalichthys hillsi Schaeffer 1967
AMNH 5722
"? Synorichthys stewarti" = Lasalichthys stewarti Gibson 2018
AMNH 5722
Lasalichthys otischalkensis n. sp. Gibson 2018
NMMNH P-44698 (holotype); TMM 31098-44, NMMNH P-78661 (paratypes); NMMNH P-78662, NMMNH P-78663, NMMNH P-78664, NMMNH P-78665, NMMNH P-78666, NMMNH P-78667, NMMNH P-78668, NMMNH P-78669, NMMNH P-78670, NMMNH P-78671
Cionichthys greeni n. sp. Schaeffer 1967
AMNH 5600 (holotype), 5596, 5597, 5598, 5599