Tecovas Formation

The Tecovas Formation is a geological formation in Texas.[1]

Tecovas Formation Stratigraphic range: Upper Triassic
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	Dockum Group
Underlies	Trujillo Formation
Location
Region	Crosby County
Country	United States

Vertebrate fauna

Vertebrates of the Tecovas Formation
Taxa	Presence	Notes	Images
Caseosaurus[1]		A herrerasaurid similar to Chindesaurus	Caseosaurus holotype ilium UMMP 8870
Tecovasaurus[1]		An archosauriform (a possible cynodont according to Kammerer et al. 2012[2])
Tecovasuchus[3]		An aetosaur belonging to Paratypothoracisini
Soumyasaurus[4]		A silesaurid

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

References

1. Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Triassic, North America)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 518–521. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
2. Christian F. Kammerer, John J. Flynn, Lovasoa Ranivoharimanana and André R. Wyss (2012). "Ontogeny in the Malagasy Traversodontid Dadadon isaloi and a Reconsideration of its Phylogenetic Relationships". Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences. 5: 112–125. doi:10.3158/2158-5520-5.1.112.
3. Martz, J. W.; Small, B. J. (2006). "Tecovasuchus chatterjeei, a new aetosaur (Archosauria: Stagonolepididae) from the Tecovas Formation (Carnian, Upper Triassic) of Texas". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26 (2): 308–320. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[308:tcanaa]2.0.co;2.
4. Volkan Sarıgül; Federico Agnolín; Sankar 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" (PDF). Historia Natural, Tercera Serie. 8 (1): 5–24.