Genus: Metoposaurus non LYDEKKER, 1890

Species: fraasi LUCAS, 1904 (nomen dubium)
Etymology:

Holotype: USNM 2152

Locality: 5 miles east of Tanners Crossing, Little Colorado River, 25 miles above the junction of the Little Colorado with the Colorado, Ward’s Bonebed, Arizona.

Horizon: Lower Petrified Forest Formation, Chinle Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Carnian Stage, Lower Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.

Material: Interclavicle.

Referred material:

MURRY & LONG, 1989

Locality: Dying Grounds Locality, SMU 228, Sec 23, T18N, R24E, 34'56"36'"N, 109'45"55'"W, Petrified Forest, Arizona.

Horizon: Member?, Chinle Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Carnian Stage, Lower Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.

Material:

Number: Not given:

 

Locality: PEFO 085027 (UCMP V85236, MNA 302:116, SMU 230, PF124), Crocodile Hill (part of V7038), in variegated siltstone bed, Blue Mesa W Area, Petrified Forest, Apache County, Arizona.

Horizon: Member?, Chinle Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Carnian Stage, Lower Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.

Material:

Number: Not given:

 

MURRY, 1989

Locality: Sunday Canyon Locality, SMU 123, 34'57"18'"N, 101'42"15'"W, Badlands along Sunday Creek, Fortress Cliff 7.5 Quadrangle, Randall County, Texas.

Horizon: Dockum Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Carnian Stage, Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.

Material:

Number: Not given:

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Species: jonesi CASE, 1910 (nomen dubium)
Etymology:
= Buettneria jonesi CASE, 1910 (nomen dubium)
= Eupelor fraasi jonesi (CASE, 1910) COLBERT & IMBRIE, 1956 (partim)
= Metoposaurus fraasi jonesi (CASE, 1910) ROY CHOWDHURY, 1965 (partim) (nomen dubium)

Holotype: UCMP 3814

Locality: Head of Home Creek, Crosby County, Western Texas.

Horizon: Tecovas Member, Dockum Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Carnian Stage, Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.

Material: Clavicles an interclavicle.

Referred material:

CASE, 1920

Locality: Western Texas.

Horizon: Dockum Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Carnian Stage, Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.

Material:

UW: Thoracic shield.


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Species: santaecrucis KOKEN, 1914 (nomen dubium)
= Metopias santaecrucis (KOKEN, 1913) (nomen dubium)
Etymology:

Holotype: GPIT 1913

Locality: Santa Croce (Heilgkreuz), Val Badia, Alto Adice (Sudtirol), northern Italy.

Horizon: Raible Beds.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Carnian Stage, Late Triassic Epoch, Late Triassic.

Material: A fragmentary skull.

 

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Species: hoffmani DUTUIT, 1978 (nomen dubium)
Etymology:

Syntypes: MHNN-MAI (old MAD).1-4

Locality: Folakara area, Morondava Basin, Toliary Province, Madagascar.

Horizon: Isalo Group, Section II or III.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle-Late Triassic.

Material:

Breakdown as follows:

MNHN-MAI-1: Interclavicular fragment.

MNHN-MAI-2: Left postorbital fragment.

MNHN-MAI-3: A right nasofrontal fragment.

MNHN-MAI-4: A subcomplete right pterygoid with patial surroundng bones.