Arroyo Seco 2 (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as Coelophysis type site, Cope

Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.2° N, 106.3° W: paleocoordinates 11.4° N, 45.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Rock Point or Petrified Forest member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Baldwin in 1881; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1887. The dinosaurian genus Coelurus. American Naturalist 21:367-369 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 54167: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.09.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Coelophysidae
Coelophysis bauri Cope 1887 coelophysoid
possibly part of synype series