Snowflake (Triassic to of the United States)

Where: Navajo County, Arizona (34.5° N, 110.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.8° N, 38.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Holbrook Member (Moenkopi Formation), Aegean to Aegean (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Lucas & Schoch (2002: Lethaia 35: 97-106) inferred the Holbrook member to be earliest Anisian (Aegean–Bithynian) in age based upon tetrapod biostratigraphy (Eocyclotosaurus used to correlate Holbrook Member to German Upper Bundsandstein) and magnetostratigraphy

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: H. Klein and S. G. Lucas. 2010. Review of the tetrapod ichnofauna of the Moenkopi Formation/Group (Early-Middle Triassic) of the American Southwest. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 50:1-67 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135413: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 25.10.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Chirotherium barthii Kaup 1835 archosaur
UCMP uncatalogued, slabs with pes impressions