Favret Canyon, Augusta Mountains (LACM 8031) (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as C. duelferi-type locality

Where: Pershing County, Nevada (40.1° N, 117.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 41.6° W)

When: Rotelliformis/Meeki ammonoid zone, Fossil Hill Member (Favret Formation), Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, gray limestone and brown, gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Martin Sander in 2011-2014; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: N. Klein, L. Schmitz, T. Wintrich and P. M. Sander. 2020. A new cymbospondylid ichthyosaur (Ichthyosauria) from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of the Augusta Mountains, Nevada, USA. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209724: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 13.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Cymbospondylidae
Cymbospondylus duelferi n. sp. Klein et al. 2020 ichthyosaur
LACM DI 158109