MNA locality 530, Fort Wingate: Norian, New Mexico
collected by S. Hasiotis, R. Dubiel
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Grallator sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| MNA V1581; Hasiotis 1994 id: aff. Coelurosaurichnus sp. | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Chirotheriidae
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? Brachychirotherium sp.
Beurlen 1950
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| MNA V3303 | ||||||||||
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= aff. Brachychirotherium sp.
Beurlen 1950
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Hunt and Lucas 2007 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | McKinley |
| Coordinates: | 35.5° North, 108.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 10.9° North, 47.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Triassic |
| Stage: | Norian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Norian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 227.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Chinle | Formation: | Bluewater Creek | Member: | McGaffey |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: described as Adamanian; originally assigned to the "Monitor Butte Member" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | current ripples,micaceous,gray,yellow sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | gray,green siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: two tracks preserved on "a ripple-laminated, grayish yellow micaceous sandstone"; one on "an olive-gray siltstone" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),survey of museum collection,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collectors: | S. Hasiotis, R. Dubiel |
Metadata
| Database number: | 83328 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-08-18 07:09:36 | Last modified: | 2021-11-02 15:04:50 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-08-18 07:09:36 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27978. | ETE | S. G. Lucas and A. B. Heckert. 2002. Upper Triassic dinosaur track from Fort Wingate, New Mexico. In A. B. Heckert & S. G. Lucas (eds.), Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 21:245-247 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 65919 | A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 2006. Late Triassic tetrapod tracks from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. In J. D. Harris, S. G. Lucas, J. A. Spielmann, M. G. Lockley, A. R. C. Milner, J. I. Kirkland (eds.), The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:221-225 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner] | |
| 27985 | ETE | A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 2007. Late Triassic tetrapod tracks of western North America. In S. G. Lucas & J. A. Spielmann (eds.), Triassic of the American West. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 40:215-230 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 76668 | H. Klein and S. G. Lucas. 2021. The Triassic Tetrapod Footprint Record. New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Bulletin 83:1-194 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 78470 | S. G. Lucas, A. B. Heckert, J. A. Spielmann, L. H. Tanner, and A. P. Hunt. 2007. First day: Middle and Upper Triassic stratigraphy, sedimentology and paleontology of west-central New Mexico. In S. G. Lucas & J. A. Spielmann (ed.), Triassic of the American West. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 40:169-180 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |