TTU VPL 3870 (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as Patricia Site

Where: Garza County, Texas (33.1° N, 101.5° W: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 41.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cooper Canyon Formation (Dockum Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• "Upper part of the Cooper Canyon Formation, Dockum Group, Upper Triassic" (Hungerbühler et al. 2013)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone and mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2001–

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: D. P. Cunningham, A. Hungerbühler, S. Chatterjee and K. McQuilkin. 2002. Late Triassic vertebrates from the Patricia site near Post, Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3 (suppl.)):47A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196537: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 20.09.2018, edited by Bryan Gee and Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Metoposauridae indet.2 Watson 1919 tetrapod
TTU P-10761, interclavicle and centra
Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithischia indet. Seeley 1888 ornithischian
large tibia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.1 Marsh 1881 theropod
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Pseudopalatus sp." = Machaeroprosopus2, Machaeroprosopus lottorum n. sp.1
"Pseudopalatus sp." = Machaeroprosopus2 Mehl 1916 archosaur
TTU P-11423, TTU P-10074 (skulls); TTU P-10075, partial skull
Machaeroprosopus lottorum n. sp.1 Hungerbühler et al. 2013 archosaur
TTU-P10076 (holotype) and TTU-P10077, both crania
 Phytosauria -
"Parasuchia indet." = Phytosauria2
"Parasuchia indet." = Phytosauria2 Jaeger 1828 phytosaur
Substantial amounts of TTU material
 Pseudosuchia - Shuvosauridae
Shuvosaurus sp.1 Chatterjee 1993 archosaur
 Loricata - Rauisuchidae
Postosuchus sp. Chatterjee 1985 rauisuchid
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Typothorax coccinarum2 Cope 1875 aetosaur
TTU P-10070, TTU P-11587, TTU P-11588, TTU P-11591, TTU P-11592 (osteoderms); TTU P-11536, humerus (proximal end);
Osteichthyes
 Actinopterygii -
Actinopterygii indet. Cope 1887 ray-finned fish
TTU P-10721, 'fish hash'
 Palaeonisciformes -