Moqui Wash: Spathian, Arizona
collected by Peabody, Welles
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Capitosauridae indet.
Watson 1919
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| UCMP 37759-37760; footprints in sandstone | ||||||||||
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= Tetrapoda indet.
Jaekel 1911
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Klein and Lucas 2010 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Chirotheriidae
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Chirotherium moquiensis n. sp.
Peabody 1948
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| synonym of Chirotherium rex | ||||||||||
| UCMP 37345, 37784, uncollected material | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Mastodonsauridae
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Capitosauridae indet.
Watson 1919
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1 individual | |||||||||
| UCMP 36713; Nearly complete skeleton | ||||||||||
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= Parotosaurus peabodyi
Welles and Cosgriff 1965
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Nesbitt 2005 | |||||||||
| recombined as Wellesaurus peabodyi | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Coconino |
| Coordinates: | 35.1° North, 110.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.1° North, 38.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Triassic |
| Stage: | Olenekian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Spathian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 248.90000 - 247.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | conglomerate |
| Secondary lithology: | current ripples sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | "channel" |
| Geology comments: described as "mudflat" by Peabody (1948) | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
| Collectors: | Peabody, Welles |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UCMP V4126, V4127 | ||
| Database number: | 95109 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler, M. Carrano | Enterer: | R. Butler, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-04-07 01:01:15 | Last modified: | 2017-09-13 13:47:22 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-04-07 01:01:15 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 37010. | F. E. Peabody. 1948. Reptile and amphibian trackways from the Lower Triassic Moenkopi formation of Arizona and Utah. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 27(8):295-468 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 63323 | G. R. Demathieu and H. Haubold. 1972. Stratigraphische Aussagen der Tetrapodenfährten aus der terrestrischen Trias Europas [Stratigraphic statements about the tetrapod tracks from the European terrestrial Triassic]. Geologie 21:802-836 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 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] | |
| 32399 | S. G. Lucas and R. R. Schoch. 2002. Triassic temnospondyl biostratigraphy, biochronology and correlation of the German Bundsandstein and North American Moenkopi Formation. Lethaia 35:97-106 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 32378 | S. J. Nesbitt. 2005. The Moenkopi Formation along the Little Colorado River in eastern Arizona. In S. J. Nesbitt, W. G. Parker, R. B. Irmis (eds.), Guidebook to the Triassic Formations of the Colorado Plateau in northern Arizona, Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 9:13-23 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 32390 | S. P. Welles. 1969. Collecting Triassic vertebrates in the Plateau Province. Journal of the West 8(2):231-246 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |