Cooper Canyon
Description
Source: Wikipédia
The Cooper Canyon Formation is a geological formation of Norian age in Texas. It is one of several formations encompassed by the Dockum Group.
The type area of the formation is situated in Garza County, Texas, southeast of Lubbock. The Cooper Canyon Formation consist of reddish siltstone and mudstone with lenses of sandstone and conglomerate. Thickness of the formation in the type area is 161.5 meters. It increases to the south, and in some places exceeds 200 m. The formation contains diverse fossils, including vertebrate remains.
Découvertes
Source: The Paleobiology Database
Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 6
Miller's Ranch Quarry : Texas - Garza 14122 19328 19338 24249 24941 29594 29602 32304 36775 58720 63730 67237 70805 78487 R. C. Miller Ranch/Post quarry, 9 mi/14.5 km SE of of Post, Garza County, W Texas; coordinates stated by Bolt & Chatterjee (2000) and Chatterjee (1991)- Technosaurus smalli
- Protoavis texensis
- Neotheropoda
- Herrerasauridae
- Neotheropoda
- Soumyasaurus aenigmaticus
- Lott Ranch, Garza : Texas - Garza 19338 from the Lott Ranch, Garza County - position estimated as 12 mi S of Post (historical location of ranch)
- Headquarters South : Texas - Garza 66757 75647
- TTU VPL 3870 : Texas - Garza 29602 60809 82648 "TTU Vertebrate Paleontology Locality 3870 (exact locality data reposited at TTUP), 13 km South of Post, Garza County, Texas." (Hungerbühler et al. 2013)
- Boren Quarry (MOTT VPL 3869) : Texas - Garza 29602 75649
- Headquarters NW (MOTT 3899) : Texas - Garza 29602 66757 75647 In close proximity to other 'Headquarters' sites, including MOTT 3892 and 3898. Headquarters NW is less than 1 km from these sites.
Publication(s)
La base comprend 19 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 Anonymous. 1983. Dinosaur ancestors unearthed in Texas. Science News 124(23):357
- ↑1 R. A. Long and P. A. Murry. 1995. Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) Tetrapods from the Southwestern United States. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 4:1-254
- ↑1 S. Chatterjee. 1993. Shuvosaurus, a new theropod: an unusual theropod dinosaur from the Triassic of Texas. National Geographic Research and Exploration 9(3):274-285
- ↑1 2 3 T. M. Lehman and S. Chatterjee. 2005. Depositional setting and vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Triassic Dockum Group of Texas. Journal of Earth Systems Science 114(3):325-351 (https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02702953)
- ↑1 S. J. Nesbitt, R. B. Irmis, and W. G. Parker. 2007. A critical re-evaluation of the Late Triassic dinosaur taxa of North America. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 5(2):209-243 (https://doi.org/10.1017/s1477201907002040)
- ↑1 A. B. Heckert and S. G. Lucas. 2006. Micro- and small vertebrate biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Upper Triassic Chinle Group, southwestern USA. The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:94-104
- ↑1 S. Chatterjee. 1984. A new ornithischian dinosaur from the Triassic of North America. Naturwissenschaften 71:630-631 (https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00377897)
- ↑1 2 3 4 5 6 J. W. Martz. 2008. Lithostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, and vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Dockum Group (Upper Triassic), of southern Garza County, West Texas. Unpublished PhD thesis, Texas Tech University.
- ↑1 R. B. Irmis, W. G. Parker, and S. J. Nesbitt, J. Liu. 2007. Early ornithischian dinosaurs: the Triassic record. Historical Biology 19(1):3-22 (https://doi.org/10.1080/08912960600719988)
- ↑1 S. Chatterjee. 1991. Cranial anatomy and relationships of a new Triassic bird from Texas. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 332:277-342
- ↑1 P. A. Murry and R. A. Long. 1997. Dockum Group. Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs
- ↑1 V. Sarigul, F. Agnolin, and S. Chatterjee. 2018. Description of a multitaxic bone assemblage from the Upper Triassic Post Quarry of Texas (Dockum Group), including a new small basal dinosauriform taxon. Historia Natural 8(1):5-24
- ↑1 J. W. Martz and B. J. Small. 2019. Non-dinosaurian dinosauromorphs from the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic) of the Eagle Basin, northern Colorado: Dromomeron romeri (Lagerpetidae) and a new taxon, Kwanasaurus williamparkeri (Silesauridae). PeerJ 7:e7551:1-71 (https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7551)
- ↑1 J. W. Martz, B. Mueller, and S. J. Nesbitt, M. R. Stocker, W. G. Parker, M. Atanassov, N. C. Fraser, J. Weinbaum, J. R. Lehane. 2013. A taxonomic and biostratigraphic re-evaluation of the Post Quarry vertebrate assemblage from the Cooper Canyon Formation (Dockum Group, Upper Triassic) of southern Garza County, western Texas. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 103:339-364 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691013000376)
- ↑1 2 3 V. Sarıgül. 2017. New theropod fossils from the Upper Triassic Dockum Group of Texas, USA, and a brief overview of the Dockum theropod diversity. PaleoBios 34:1-18 (https://doi.org/10.5070/p9341033817)
- ↑1 2 E. J. Lessner, W. G. Parker, and A. D. Marsh, S. J. Nesbitt, R. B. Irmis, B. D. Mueller. 2018. New insights into Late Triassic dinosauromorph-bearing assemblages from Texas using apomorphy-based identifications. PaleoBios 35:1-41 (https://doi.org/10.5070/p9351039960)
- ↑1 2 D. P. Cunningham, A. Hungerbühler, and S. Chatterjee, K. McQuilkin. 2002. Late Triassic vertebrates from the Patricia site near Post, Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3 (suppl.)):47A
- ↑1 A. Hungerbühler, B. Mueller, and S. Chatterjee, D. P. Cunningham. 2013. Cranial anatomy of the Late Triassic phytosaur Machaeroprosopus, with the description of a new species from West Texas. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 103:269-312 (https://doi.org/10.1017/s1755691013000364)
- ↑1 V. Sarıgül. 2018. New archosauromorph fragments from the Dockum Group of Texas and assessment of the earliest dinosaurs in North America. Historical Biology 30(8):1059-1075 (https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2017.1333609)
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