Mesa del Oro (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as Lucero Uplift

Where: Cibola County, New Mexico (34.6° N, 107.5° W: paleocoordinates 10.0° N, 46.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Petrified Forest Formation (Chinle Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• lower part of formation

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1993. Triassic vertebrate paleontology and biochronology of New Mexico. In S. G. Lucas & J. Zidek (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 2:49-60 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 179082: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.05.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Metoposauridae indet. Watson 1919 tetrapod
large and small sized forms
Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae von Huene 1915 archosaur
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur
dermal scutes