Where: Quay County, New Mexico (35.4° N, 103.4° W: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 43.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bull Canyon Formation (Dockum Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• late Early Norian; initially referred to "Cooper Canyon Formation" and later considered Bull Canyon. Hunt et al. 1998 assign this to Blue Mesa Mbr. of Chinle Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary, ferruginous, intraclastic, gray, calcareous, carbonaceous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1981; reposited in the UCM
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: K. Carpenter and J. M. Parrish. 1985. Late Triassic vertebrates from Revuelto Creek, Quay County, New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 36th Field Conference, Santa Rosa, NM 197-198 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 49499: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.04.2005, edited by Bethany Allen and Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
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"Desmatosuchus chamaensis" = Rioarribasuchus chamaensis4
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"Pseudopalatus mccauleyi" = Machaeroprosopus mccauleyi2, "Arribasuchus bucercos" = Machaeroprosopus1, Rutiodon "sp. B"
Rutiodon "sp. B" Emmons 1856 archosaur | |
Osteichthyes | |
Palaeonisciformes indet.3 Hay 1902 |