Biberon Canyon, Canjilon Creek (Triassic of the United States)

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

• from "light green layer just below purple clay", matrix gray

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)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Temnospondyli indet. tetrapod
MCZ 3037
Reptilia
 Diapsida -
Archosauriformes indet. Gauthier 1986 archosauromorph
MCZ 3036
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Typothorax sp. Cope 1875 aetosaur
MCZ 1487, 1488
 Theropoda -
Coelophysoidea indet. Holtz 1994 coelophysoid
MCZ 4779, 3038, 3039