Where: San Juan County, Utah (37.6° N, 110.3° W: paleocoordinates 13.2° N, 48.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Monitor Butte Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• Five meters above the contact with the Shinarump Conglomerate
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•This is also to the Blue Mesa Member of the Chinle formation which has been dated to Norian age between magneto zones PF5r and PF8n (roughly 221.75–216.97Ma) (Kent et al. 2019)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown mudstone and lenticular limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Parrish, Good, Dubiel in 1983–1988
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• UCM: University of Colorado Museum
Primary reference: J. M. Parrish. 1999. Small fossil vertebrates from the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic) of southern Utah. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, Utah Geological Survey Miscellaneous Publication 99-1:44-50 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 92808: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 30.11.2009, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Crocodylomorpha indet. crocodilian UCM 76191-76195, vertebrae, paramedian and lateral armor plates, partial humeri, femur and fibula
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Unionidae indet. Rafinesque 1820 freshwater mussel | |