Where: Guadaloupe County, New Mexico (34.9° N, 104.7° W: paleocoordinates 10.0° N, 44.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Bull Canyon Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• PJW: Parker, Hungerbühler & Martz (2012: Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 103, 265–268) state: "most likely from the Bull Canyon Formation of New Mexico (Gregory 1972)."
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. G. Mehl. 1922. A new phytosaur from the Trias of Arizona. Journal of Geology 30(2):144-157 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 196536: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 20.09.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Machaeroprosopus andersoni n. sp.
Machaeroprosopus andersoni n. sp. Mehl 1922 archosaur No. 396 Walker Museum Collections (now CFMNH 396), skull
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