Where: Santa Fe County, New Mexico (35.2° N, 105.8° W: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 38.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Garita Creek Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)
• lower part of formation, ca. 4m above lower contact; Adamanian/late Carnian age
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; red mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in 2007; reposited in the NMMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
• NMMNH excavations starting in 2007.
Primary reference: S. G. Lucas, L. F. Rinehart, K. Krainer, J. A. Spielmann, and A. B. Heckert. 2010. Taphonomy of the Lamy amphibian quarry: A Late Triassic bonebed in New Mexico, U.S.A. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 298:388-398 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 125188: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.03.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Phytosauria indet. Jaeger 1828 archosaur |