Also known as Biberon CaƱon
Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.4° N, 106.5° W: paleocoordinates 11.6° N, 45.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Petrified Forest Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green siliciclastic sediments and red, blue claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by L. Price & T. White in 1934-1935; reposited in the MCZ
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: S. J. Nesbitt and M. R. Stocker. 2008. The vertebrate assemblage of the Late Triassic Canjilon Quarry (northern New Mexico, USA), and the importance of apomorphy-based assemblage comparisons. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(4):1063-1072 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 89256: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.05.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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