Cholla Power Plant transformer station footprints (Triassic to of the United States)

Where: Navajo County, Arizona (34.9° N, 110.3° W: paleocoordinates 3.3° N, 38.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Holbrook Member (Moenkopi Formation), Aegean to Aegean (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• probably from the lower Holbrook Member; Lucas & Schoch (2002: Lethaia 35: 97-106) inferred the Holbrook member to be earliest Anisian (Aegean–Bithynian) in age based upon tetrapod biostratigraphy (Eocyclotosaurus used to correlate Holbrook Member to German Upper Bundsandstein) and magnetostratigraphy

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by S. Nesbitt in 1998

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: S. Nesbitt. 1999. A Middle Triassic ichnofauna: a preliminary report. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 6:23-33 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 95093: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 06.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
"Chirotherium barthi" = Chirotherium barthii, Chirotherium rex
"Chirotherium barthi" = Chirotherium barthii Kaup 1835 archosaur
Chirotherium rex Peabody 1948 archosaur
 Squamata -
Rhynchosauroides sp. Maidwell 1911 squamates