Where: Garfield County, Utah (38.0° N, 111.1° W: paleocoordinates 13.8° N, 48.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Monitor Butte Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2003; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: J. A. Gauthier, S. J. Nesbitt, E. R. Schachner, G. S. Bever, and W. G. Joyce. 2011. The bipedal stem crocodilian Poposaurus gracilis: inferring function in fossils and innovation in archosaur locomotion. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 52(1):107-126 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 108771: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 04.05.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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