Also known as Silty Facies, Ward Mesa, pterosaur

Where: Arizona (35.7° N, 111.0° W: paleocoordinates 19.3° N, 49.8° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Silty Facies Member (Kayenta Formation), Sinemurian to Sinemurian (199.3 - 182.7 Ma)

• "Middle Kayenta Formation...silty facies...horizon cannot be precisely traced."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1978; reposited in the MCZ

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: K. Padian. 1984. Pterosaur remains from the Kayenta Formation (?Early Jurassic) of Arizona . Palaeontology 27(2):407-413 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13283: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.02.2002

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