Where: Union County, New Mexico (36.9° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.8° N, 42.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sloan Canyon Formation (Chinle Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• Apachean; orig. assigned to Dockum.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; white sandstone and green claystone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected by M. G. Lockley & A. P. Hunt in 1993
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: K. L. Conrad and M. G. Lockley. 1986. Overview of Late Triassic ichnofaunas in the western USA. In M. G. Lockley (ed.), A Guide to Dinosaur Tracksites of the Colorado Plateau and American Southwest. University of Colorado at Denver Geology Department Magazine, Special Issue 12-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 84021: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.09.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Rhynchosauroides sp. Maidwell 1911 squamates | |
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"Anchisauripus sillimani" = Eubrontes sillimani1
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Scoyenia sp.2 White 1929
? Acanthichnus sp.2 Hitchcock 1858
Kouphichnium sp.2 Nopcsa 1923
Isopodichnus sp.2 Bornemann 1889 |