Pekin (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Montgomery County, North Carolina (35.2° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 0.2° N, 18.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pekin Formation (Chatham Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• considered Carnian in age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and conglomerate

• "The 'Pekin' Formation is dominated by fluvial sandstones and conglomerates"

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1990. Re-evaluation of "Typothorax" meadei, a Late Triassic aetosaur from the United States. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 64:317-328 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93563: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 25.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Phytosauria -
Phytosauria indet.
Phytosauria indet. archosaur
AMNH 24141 (in part), two scutes
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Lucasuchus sp.
Lucasuchus sp. Long and Murry 1995 aetosaur
AMNH 24141 (in part), lateral plate