Also known as Typothorax type, Gallina, Wheeler Expedition
Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 106.8° W: paleocoordinates 11.5° N, 45.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Petrified Forest Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• also Painted Desert Mb., Petrified Forest Fm., Chinle Gp.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; flat-pebble, green, red, calcareous conglomerate and green, red, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E. D. Cope in 1874; reposited in the NMMNH, USNM
• Cope accompanied Wheeler Expedition
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1875. Abstract of remarks made before a meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, June 8th and 15th, 1875. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (separate) 1-8 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80925: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.05.2008, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae von Huene 1915 archosaur | |
Typothorax coccinarum n. gen. n. sp.
Typothorax coccinarum n. gen. n. sp. Cope 1875 aetosaur USNM 2585 (lectotype), fragments of dermal plates. NMMNH P-18197, 18199, 18201, plate fragments
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