Where: McKinley County, New Mexico (35.5° N, 108.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 47.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Blue Mesa Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• Adamanian LVF; radiometric dates suggest that the Chinle is entirely Norian in age. Also known as the Blue Mesa Member of the Chinle Formation. Bottom of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the NMMNH
Primary reference: A. B. Heckert. 1997. The tetrapod fauna of the Upper Triassic lower Chinle Group (Adamanian: latest Carnian) of the Zuni Mountains, west-central New Mexico. In S. G. Lucas, J. W. Estep, T. E. Williamson, & G. S. Morgan (eds.), New Mexico's Fossil Record 1. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 11:29-39 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75652: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.10.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Parasuchia indet." = Phytosauria
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