UCMP V4214, Moa Ave (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as Tuba City, Silty Facies, Moenave

Where: Coconino County, Arizona (36.1° N, 110.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.7° N, 49.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed is 120 (or 126) feet above base of Kayenta Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; blue shale and brown, gray siltstone

• "purplish blocky shale" within Kayenta. Formation overall is the "silty facies" portion, gray and brownish, fine-grained sediments.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Williams, S. Welles in 1940, 1942; reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: S. P. Welles. 1954. New Jurassic dinosaur from the Kayenta Formation of Arizona. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 65:591-598 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13409: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.03.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
"Megalosaurus wetherilli n. sp." = Dilophosaurus wetherilli
"Megalosaurus wetherilli n. sp." = Dilophosaurus wetherilli Welles 1954 neotheropod
UCMP 37302 (holotype), nearly complete skeleton. UCMP 37303, partial skeleton; third skeleton eroded and not collected