NMMNH Loc. 371 (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as San Ysidro

Where: Sandoval County, New Mexico (35.6° N, 106.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 45.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• lower part of member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the NMMNH

Primary reference: A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1990. Paleontology and biochronology of the Petrified Forest Member of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation near San Ysidro, Sandoval County, New Mexico. New Mexico Journal of Science 30(1):17-26 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 179598: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.06.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
NMMNH P-14397, coprolites
Osteichthyes
 Ceratodontiformes - Arganodontidae
Arganodus dorotheae Case 1921 Australian lungfish
NMMNH P-14382
Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae von Huene 1915 archosaur
NMMNH P-14389-14392, 14396
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Metoposauridae indet. Watson 1919 tetrapod
NMMNH P-14383