Snowflake: Aegean - Bithynian, Arizona

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Chirotheriidae
Chirotherium barthii Kaup 1835
2 specimens
UCMP uncatalogued, slabs with pes impressions
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Arizona County:Navajo
Coordinates: 34.5° North, 110.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.8° North, 38.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Anisian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Aegean - Bithynian
Age range of interval:247.20000 - 244.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Moenkopi Member:Holbrook
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Metadata
Database number:135413
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-10-25 03:16:00 Last modified:2012-10-25 03:49:05
Access level:the public Released:2012-10-25 03:16:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
43346. H. Klein and S. G. Lucas. 2010. Review of the tetrapod ichnofauna of the Moenkopi Formation/Group (Early-Middle Triassic) of the American Southwest. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 50:1-67 [R. Butler/R. Butler]