Hagan Basin (Correo Sandstone) (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Sandoval County, New Mexico (35.3° N, 106.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 45.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Correo Sandstone Member (Petrified Forest Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1993. Triassic vertebrate paleontology and biochronology of New Mexico. In S. G. Lucas & J. Zidek (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 2:49-60 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 179083: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
NMMNH P-17667; coprolites
Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae von Huene 1915 archosaur
NMMNH P-17668, 17653, 17761
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Typothorax sp. Cope 1875 aetosaur
NMMNH P-17647
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
? Apachesaurus sp. Hunt 1993 tetrapod
interclavicle; NMMNH P-17646