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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Coelophysis sp. Cope 1889 coelophysoid |