Gallina Canyon (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as Coelophysis type site, Cope

Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 106.9° W: paleocoordinates 11.6° N, 45.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-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; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Baldwin, Williston, Case in 1881, 1911; reposited in the AMNH

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

Primary reference: S. W. Williston and E. C. Case. 1912. The Permo-Carboniferous of northern New Mexico. Journal of Geology 20:1-12 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 54168: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.09.2005

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Taxonomic list

• Collection by Willison and Case includes "various fresh-water invertebrates"
Reptilia
 Theropoda - Coelophysidae
Coelophysis sp. Cope 1889 coelophysoid
Coelophysis bauri Cope 1887 coelophysoid
possibly part of syntype series