Also known as Fort Wingate
Where: McKinley County, New Mexico (35.4° N, 108.5° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 47.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bluewater Creek Formation (Chinle Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• Adamanian LVF; radiometric dates suggest that the Chinle is entirely Norian in age. Also known as the Bluewater Creek Member of the Chinle Formation. Near base of formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pond; paleosol/pedogenic, sideritic, gray, red, blue mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by A. B. Heckert & S. G. Lucas; reposited in the NMMNH
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: A. B. Heckert, S. G. Lucas, and A. P. Hunt. 1994. A late Carnian theropod from New Mexico: implications for the early evolution of Theropoda. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(3, suppl.):28A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 55248: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.10.2005, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gnathostomata | |
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Osteichthyes | |
aff. Turseodus sp.2 Leidy 1857 | |
Redfieldiidae indet.2 Hutchinson 1973 | |
Coelacanthimorpha | |
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Reptilia | |
Reptilia indet.2 Laurenti 1768 reptile NMMNH P-34433-34436, 34438, 34439, centra. NMMNH P-34460, 34461, teeth
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Archosauriformes "indet. B"2, Archosauriformes "indet. F"2, Archosauriformes "indet. M"2, Archosauriformes "indet. S"2, Archosauriformes indet.4, Archosauriformes indet.4, Crosbysaurus harrisae2, Crosbysaurus harrisae2
Archosauriformes indet.4 Gauthier 1986 archosauromorph "more advanced than the Herrerasauridae"; NMMNH P-18401, ten vertebral fragments
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? Ornithischia indet.2 ornithischian NMMNH P-34458, 34459; NMMNH P-34500 (only first two are "?"), teeth
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"Parasuchia indet." = Phytosauria1 Jaeger 1828 phytosaur NMMNH P-18270, occipital condyle. NMMNH P-18271-18275, vertebral fragments. NMMNH P-34454-34457, teeth
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Stagonolepididae indet. aetosaur | |
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Amphibia | |
"Buettneria sp." = Anaschisma Branson 1905 tetrapod | |
Chondrichthyes | |
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