UCMP V4123, near Meteor Crater (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Coconino County, Arizona (35.0° N, 111.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.2° N, 38.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wupatki Member (Moenkopi Formation), Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• Lucas & Schoch (2002: Lethaia 35, 97-106) inferred the Wupatki Member to be Spathian in age based upon lithostratigraphic correlation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by Peabody; reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: F. E. Peabody. 1948. Reptile and amphibian trackways from the Lower Triassic Moenkopi formation of Arizona and Utah. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 27(8):295-468 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135412: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 25.10.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Lacertoides indet.
UCMP 37816-20, footprints
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Rhynchosauroides sp. Maidwell 1911 squamates
UCMP 37816-20, footprints