Re: New Mexico Triassic Vertebrate Paleontology and Jurassic Fossil Vertebratess (free pdfs) CORRECTION

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com




A correction! The authors of the Triassic paper were reversed.  I
copied the authors and titles from the pdfs, and then pasted the text
into Word and used shift + F3 (the function key) to convert the all
upper-case text to normal capitalization. However, when I then pasted
the converted  text into an email, I inadvertently pasted the same
authors twice for both papers. Apologies to the authors. My bad.
Here's the corrected version.



Andrew B. Heckert and Spencer G. Lucas (2015)
Triassic Vertebrate Paleontology in New Mexico.
Fossil Vertebrates in New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History
and Science Bulletin 68: 77-96
https://www.academia.edu/18877922/Triassic_vertebrate_paleontology_in_New_Mexico

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ben Creisler
> bcreisler@gmail.com
>
>
> New papers:
>
> Spencer G. Lucas and Andrew B. Heckert (2015)
> Triassic Vertebrate Paleontology in New Mexico.
> Fossil Vertebrates in New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History
> and Science Bulletin 68: 77-96
> https://www.academia.edu/18877922/Triassic_vertebrate_paleontology_in_New_Mexico
>
> The Triassic vertebrate paleontological record of New Mexico includes
> important assemblages of tetrapod fossils from both the Middle
> Triassic Moenkopi Formation and the Upper Triassic Chinle Group. The
> Anton Chico Member of the Moenkopi Formation preserves primarily
> temnospondyl amphibian body fossils, but the record of reptiles
> comprises both sparse body fossil assemblages and more abundant track
> assemblages, mostly of chirotheriid reptiles. A bonebed accumulation
> of temnospondyls assigned to Eocyclotosaurus appetolatus is
> particularly notable. The Upper Triassic Chinle Group in New Mexico
> preserves an array of vertebrate faunal assemblages that represent the
> entirety of Chinle “time,” and includes numerous bonebeds of
> Revueltian age as well as the best records of Apachean vertebrates in
> the American West. These include the characteristic assemblages of the
> Revueltian and Apachean land-vertebrate faunachrons.
>
> ===
>
> Spencer G. Lucas and Andrew B. Heckert (2015)
> New Mexico’s Record of Jurassic Fossil Vertebrates.
> Fossil Vertebrates in New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History
> and Science Bulletin 68: 97-104
> https://www.academia.edu/18878142/New_Mexicos_record_of_Jurassic_fossil_vertebrates
>
> New Mexico has a relatively sparse Jurassic record of fossil
> vertebrates, much less than is known from either the Triassic or the
> Cretaceous strata in the state. The oldest Jurassic vertebrates from
> New Mexico are the osteichthyans Hulettia americana, Todiltia schoewei
> and Caturus dartoni from the Middle Jurassic (Callovian) Luciano Mesa
> Member of the Todilto Formation. The overlying Callovian-Oxfordian?
> Summerville Formation has yielded fragmentary sauropod dinosaur bones
> and teeth assigned to Camarasaurus, and theropod footprints identified
> as Megalosauripus and cf. Therangospodus. Most of New Mexico’s
> Jurassic vertebrate fossils are from the Upper Jurassic
> (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian?) Brushy Basin Member of the Morrison
> Formation and include the turtle Glyptops, the theropod dinosaurs
> Allosaurus and Saurophaganax, the ornithischian Stegosaurus and
> (mostly) sauropod dinosaurs identified as Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus
> and Diplodocus (= “Seismosaurus”). The sparse record of Jurassic
> vertebrate fossils in New Mexico is partly due to the extensive eolian
> and evaporitic facies in parts of the Jurassic section, but mostly to
> a relative lack of effort to explore the Jurassic strata in New Mexico
> for vertebrate fossils.