Picket House Draw, Cimarron (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as Trujillo Creek

Where: Cimarron County, Oklahoma (36.9° N, 102.5° W: paleocoordinates 7.8° N, 38.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cobert Canyon Sandstone Member (Baldy Hill Formation), Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)

• Top of the Baldy Hill Formation. Baldy Hill listed as Upper Carnian by Long & Murry (1995)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomeratic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. Bloesch in 1941

Primary reference: S. G. Lucas, A. P. Hunt, and S. N. Hayden. 1987. The Triassic system in the Dry Cimarron Valley, New Mexico, Colorado and Oklahoma. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 38th Feidl Conference, Northeastern New Mexico 38:97-117 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94088: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 09.02.2010

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae von Huene 1915 archosaur
Articular
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Buettneria sp." = Anaschisma
"Buettneria sp." = Anaschisma Branson 1905 tetrapod
Interclavicle