Post Quarry is a site located in Garza County, Texas. The Post Quarry yields an assemblage of bones from the Upper Triassic likely dating from 220 and 215 ma.2 containing bones from multiple taxa including the most well known rauisuchid named Postosuchus.1 The site was named after the Post Town in Texas, named after C. W. Post.3 There has been rare finds of dinosauriforms discovered in the quarry being both non dinosaurian dinosauriforms and early dinosaurs.4
Taxons discovered in the Post Quarry
- Rileymillerus cosgriffi2
- Apachesaurus gregorii2
- Trilophosaurus dornorum 2
- Leptosuchus2
- Calyptosuchus wellesi2
- Typothorax coccinarum2
- Paratypothorax2
- Desmatosuchus smalli2
- Shuvosaurus inexpectatus2
- Postosuchus kirkpatricki2
- Dromomeron gregorii2
- Technosaurus smalli2
References
References
- Sarıgül, Volkan; Agnolín, Federico; Chatterjee, Sankar. "Description of a multitaxic bone assemblage from the Upper Triassic Post Quarry of Texas (Dockum Group), including a new small basal dinosauriform taxon". ResearchGate. p. 7.
- Martz, Jeffrey W.; Mueller, Bill; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Stocker, Michelle R.; Parker, William G.; Atanassov, Momchil; Fraser, Nicholas; Weinbaum, Jonathan; Lehane, James R. (2012). "A taxonomic and biostratigraphic re-evaluation of the Post Quarry vertebrate assemblage from the Cooper Canyon Formation (Dockum Group, Upper Triassic) of southern Garza County, western Texas". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 103 (3–4): 339–364. Bibcode:2012EESTR.103..339M. doi:10.1017/S1755691013000376. ISSN 1755-6910.
- Association, Texas State Historical. "History and Development of Post, Texas". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 2026-05-27.
- Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Chatterjee, Sankar (2008-08-06). "Late Triassic dinosauriforms from the Post Quarry and surrounding areas, west Texas, U.S.A.". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 249 (2): 143–156. Bibcode:2008NJGPA.249..143N. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2008/0249-0143.