Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 106.4° W: paleocoordinates 11.5° N, 45.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Petrified Forest Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Also referred to as the Petrified Forest Formation of the Chinle Group (Painted Desert Member)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Baldwin in 1881; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1881. Belodon in New Mexico. American Naturalist 15:922-923 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93620: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 26.01.2010

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