NMMNH L-440, Lamy (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Santa Fe County, New Mexico (35.5° N, 105.9° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 45.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Los Esteros Member (Santa Rosa Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. Birchoff; reposited in the NMMNH

Primary reference: A. P. Hunt, S. G. Lucas, and P. Bircheff. 1993. Biochronological significance of the co-occurrence of the phytosaurs (Reptilia: Archosauria) Angistorhinus and Rutiodon in the Los Esteros Member of the Santa Rosa Formation, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, USA. In S. G. lucas, M. Morales (eds.), The Nonmarine Triassic, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 3:203-204 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93615: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 26.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unio sp. Philipsson 1788 freshwater mussel
NMMNH P-18102
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Metoposauridae indet. Watson 1919 tetrapod
NMMNH P-17936, cranial fragments
Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae, Angistorhinus sp.
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae von Huene 1915 archosaur
NMMNH P-18130, scute fragments
Angistorhinus sp. Mehl 1913 archosaur
NMMNH P-4781, partial skull