Where: Coconino County, Arizona (36.1° N, 111.3° W: paleocoordinates 14.9° N, 50.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Owl Rock Member (Chinle Formation), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)
• upper part of Owl Rock Member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; mudstone
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: R. E. Kirby. 1993. Relationships of Late Triassic basin evolution and faunal replacement in the southwestern United States: perspectives from the upper part of the Chinle Formation in northern Arizona. In S. G. Lucas and M. Morales (eds.), The Nonmarine Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 3:233-242 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 84010: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.09.2008, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Equisetopsida | |
Araucarioxylon sp. Kraus 1870 | |
Reptilia | |
"Pseudopalatus buceros" = Machaeroprosopus buceros
"Pseudopalatus buceros" = Machaeroprosopus buceros Cope 1881 archosaur MNA V7211, maxillary fragment
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