Hostname: page-component-84b7d79bbc-rnpqb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-30T18:01:27.697Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

New reptiles from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation of Arizona

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Phillip A. Murry
Phillip A. Murry*
Affiliation:
Department of Physical Sciences, Tarleton State University, Tarleton Station, Stephenville, Texas 76402
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

New records of Late Triassic reptiles from the Chinle Formation of Arizona include a new species of small trilophosaurid, a sphenodontid, and two taxa of eolacertilians. ?Trilophosaurus jacobsi n. sp. is a small trilophosaurid showing affinities to the type of Trilophosaurus buettneri of the southwestern United States and Variodens inopinatus from the Upper Triassic of Great Britain. A sphenodontid is also reported along with maxillae tentatively referred to the Kuehneosauridae and a jaw fragment from a subpleurodont eolacertilian with polycuspate teeth.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Paleontology , Volume 61 , Issue 4 , July 1987 , pp. 773 - 786
Copyright
Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Broom, R. 1903. On the skull of a true lizard (Paliguana whitei) from the Triassic beds of South Africa. Records of the Albany Museum, 1:1–3.Google Scholar
Broom, R. 1906. On a new South African Triassic rhynchocephalian. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, 16:379–380.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Broom, R. 1926. On a nearly complete skeleton of a new eosuchian reptile (Palaeagama vielhaueri gen. et sp. nov.). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, p. 478–491.Google Scholar
Camp, C. L., and Welles, S. P. 1956. Triassic dicynodont reptiles. Memoirs of the University of California, 13:255–348.Google Scholar
Carroll, R. L. 1975. Permo-Triassic “lizards” from the Karroo. Palaeontologia Africana, 18:71–87.Google Scholar
Carroll, R. L. 1977. The origin of lizards, p. 359–396. In Andrews, S. M., Miles, R. S., and Walker, A. D. (eds.), Problems in Vertebrate Evolution. Linnean Society Symposium Series 4.Google Scholar
Carroll, R. L. 1978. Permo-Triassic “lizards” from the Karroo System; Part 2, A gliding reptile from the Upper Permian of Madagascar. Palaeontologia Africana, 21:143–159.Google Scholar
Carroll, R. L., Belt, E. S., et al. 1972. Vertebrate paleontology of eastern Canada. 24th International Geological Congress, Canada, 1972. Field Excursion Guidebook, Montreal:1–113.Google Scholar
Carroll, R. L., and Galton, P. M. 1977. “Modern” lizard from the Upper Triassic of China. Nature, 266(5599):252–255.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Carroll, R. L., and Thompson, P. 1982. A bipedal lizardlike reptile from the Karroo. Journal of Paleontology, 56:1–10.Google Scholar
Case, E. C. 1928. Indications of a cotylosaur and of a new form of fish from the Triassic beds of Texas, with remarks on the Shinarump Conglomerate. University of Michigan Contributions of the Museum of Paleontology, 3(1):1–14.Google Scholar
Colbert, E. H. 1966. A gliding reptile from the Triassic of New Jersey. American Museum Novitates, 2246:1–23.Google Scholar
Colbert, E. H. 1967. Adaptations for gliding in the lizard Draco. American Museum Novitates, 2283:1–20.Google Scholar
Colbert, E. H. 1970. The Triassic gliding lizard Icarosaurus . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 143(2):89–142.Google Scholar
Demar, R., and Bolt, J. R. 1981. Dentitional organization and function in a Triassic reptile. Journal of Paleontology, 55:967–984.Google Scholar
Elder, R. J. 1978. Paleontology and paleoecology of the Dockum Group, Upper Triassic, Howard County, Texas. Unpubl. M.S. thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 205 p.Google Scholar
Endô, R. 1940. A new genus of Thecodontia from the Lycoptera beds in Manchoukuo. Bulletin of the Central National Museum of Manchoukuo, 2:1–14.Google Scholar
Endô, R., and Shikama, T. 1942. Mesozoic reptilian fauna in the Jehol Mountainland, Manchoukuo. Bulletin of the Central National Museum of Manchoukuo, 3:1–2, 15–16.Google Scholar
Estes, R. 1983. Sauria terrestria, Amphisbaenia. In Handbuch der Palaeoherpetologie. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 10A:1–249.Google Scholar
Fraser, N. C. 1982. A new Rhynchocephalian from the British Upper Trias. Palaeontology, 25:709–725.Google Scholar
Fraser, N. C., and Walkden, G. M. 1983. The ecology of a Late Triassic reptile assemblage from Gloucestershire, England. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 42:341–365.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gilmore, C. W. 1910. A new rhynchocephalian reptile from the Jurassic of Wyoming. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 37:35–42.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gow, C. E., and Raath, M. A. 1977. Fossil vertebrates in Rhodesia: sphenodontid remains from the Upper Triassic of Rhodesia. Palaeontologia Africana, 20:121–122.Google Scholar
Gregory, J. T. 1945. Osteology and relationships of Trilophosaurus . University of Texas Publications, 4401:273–359.Google Scholar
Halstead, L. B., and Nicoll, P. G. 1971. Fossilized caves of Mendip. Studies in Speleology, 2(3/4):93–102.Google Scholar
Hoffstetter, R. 1953. Caractères dentaires juveniles chez des Rhynchocéphales Jurassiques, Theretarius et Leptosaurus. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire naturelle, 25:213–220.Google Scholar
Hoffstetter, R. 1955. Rhynchocephalia, p. 556–576. In Traité de Paléontologie: Tome 5. Amphibiens, Reptiles, Oiseaux. Masson et Cie, Paris.Google Scholar
Huene, F. von. 1910. Über einen echten Rhynchocephalen aus der Trias von Elgin, Brachyrhinodon taylori . Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie, Paläontologie und Mineralogie, 29–62.Google Scholar
Huene, F. von 1912. Die Cotylosaurier der Trias. Palaeontographica, 59:60–102.Google Scholar
Huene, F. von 1929. Ueber Rhynchosaurier und andere Reptilien aus den Gondwana-Ablagerungen Südamerikas. Geologische und Paläontologische Abhandlungen, 17:1–62.Google Scholar
Huene, F. von 1956. Paläontologie und Phylogenie der Niederen Tetrapoden. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena, 716 p.Google Scholar
Huxley, T. H. 1868. On Saurosternon bainii and Pristerodon mckayi, two new fossil lacertilian reptiles from South Africa. The Geological Magazine, 5:201–205.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jacobs, L. L., and Murry, P. A. 1980. The vertebrate community of the Triassic Chinle Formation near St. Johns, Arizona, p. 55–71. In Jacobs, L. L. (ed.), Aspects of Vertebrate History. Museum of Northern Arizona Press, Flagstaff, 407 p.Google Scholar
Jaekel, O. 1911. Die Wirbeltiere. Eine Übersicht uber die fossilen und lebenden Formen. Berlin, 252 p.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Janensch, W. 1949. Ein neues Reptile aus dem Keuper von Halberstadt. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaeontologie (B), 1949:225–242.Google Scholar
Kemp, T. S. 1982. Mammal-like reptiles and the origin of mammals. Academic Press, New York, 363 p.Google Scholar
Koh, T. P. 1940. Santaisaurus yuani n. gen. et spec, nov., ein neues Reptil aus der Unteren Trias von China. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China, 20:73–92.Google Scholar
Kuhn, O. 1969. Cotylosauria, p. 1–89. In Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 6.Google Scholar
Malan, M. E. 1963. The dentitions of the South African Rhynchocephalia and their bearing on the origin of the rhynchosaurs. South African Journal of Science, 55:214–219.Google Scholar
Murry, P. A. 1982. Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Dockum Group (Triassic) of Texas. Unpubl. Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Methodist University, Dallas. 459 p.Google Scholar
Nopcsa, F. 1907. Zur systematischen Stellung von Palacrodon . Centralblatt fur Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, 1907:526–527.Google Scholar
Ochev, V. G., and Rykov, S. P. 1968. [New genus of small reptile from Triassic of Donskaia Luka.] Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 1:140–141.Google Scholar
Olsen, P. E. 1980. A comparison of vertebrate assemblages from the Newark and Hartford Basins (early Mesozoic, Newark Supergroup) of eastern North America, p. 35–53. In Jacobs, L. L. (ed.), Aspects of Vertebrate History. Museum of Northern Arizona Press, Flagstaff.Google Scholar
Parks, P. 1969. Cranial anatomy and mastication of the Triassic reptile Trilophosaurus . Unpubl. M.A. thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 88 p.Google Scholar
Robinson, P. L. 1957. An unusual sauropsid dentition. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 43:283–293.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Robinson, P. L. 1962. Gliding lizards from the Upper Keuper of Great Britain. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, 1601:137–146.Google Scholar
Robinson, P. L. 1967a. Triassic vertebrates from lowland and upland. Science and Culture, 33:169–173.Google Scholar
Robinson, P. L. 1967b. The evolution of the Lacertilia, p. 395–407. In Evolution des Vertèbres. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.Google Scholar
Robinson, P. L. 1973. A problematical reptile from the British Upper Trias. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 129:457–479.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Robinson, P. L. 1976. How Sphenodon and Uromastyx grow their teeth and use them. Linnean Society Symposium Series, 3:43–64.Google Scholar
Romer, A. S. 1956. Osteology of the Reptiles. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 772 p.Google Scholar
Romer, A. S. 1966. Vertebrate Paleontology, 3rd edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 468 p.Google Scholar
Simpson, G. G. 1926. American terrestrial Rhynchocephalia. American Journal of Science, Series 5, 12:12–16.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Swinton, W. E. 1939. A new Triassic rhynchocephalian from Gloucestershire. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 3:591–594.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Throckmorton, G. S., Hopson, J. A., and Parks, P. 1981. A redescription of Toxolophosaurus cloudi Olson, a Lower Cretaceous herbivorous sphenodontid reptile. Journal of Paleontology, 55:586–597.Google Scholar
Walker, A. D. 1966. Elachistosuchus, a Triassic rhynchocephalian from Germany. Nature, 211:583–585 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Welles, P. 1947. Vertebrates from the Upper Moenkopi Formation of Northern Arizona. Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences, University of California, 27(7):241–294.Google Scholar
Young, C. C. 1948. A review of Lepidosauria from China. American Journal of Science, 246:711–719.CrossRefGoogle Scholar