Lamy Amphibian Quarry (bed 5) (Triassic of the United States)

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

• sheetflood deposits on floodplain
• "poorly exposed, red mudstone to siltstone"

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 -
Phytosauria indet. Jaeger 1828 archosaur