Where: McKinley County, New Mexico (35.3° N, 108.1° W: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 47.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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. Top of formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

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 75655: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.10.2007

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