Sp
NOVAK, WEINBAUM, PEYER & CARTER, 2002
= Genus Nova PEYER, CARTER, CAMPBELL, CAMPBELL, COFFEY, OLSEN & SUES, 1999,
SUES, CARTER, OLSEN & PEYER, 2003
Locality: Durham sub-basin of the Deep River Basin, near Raleigh, Durham County, North Carolina.
Horizon: “Lithofacies Association II”, Newark Supergroup.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Triassic.
Material:
Numbers: Not given: Nearly complete skull and skeleton.
Note: Gut contents are of aetosaurian armor (Stegomus sp), a snout and limb
bones of a juvenile traversodont cynodont (Plinthogomphodon herpetairus),
a partial dicynodont digit and a dermal bone of an indeterminate temnospondyl.
Right underneath the specimen was a new gracile crocodylomorph Dromicosuchus
grallator which has bite marks on the skull and neck.