Also known as LACM LOC 8057
Where: Pershing County, Nevada (40.1° N, 117.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 41.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Frechites occidentalis ammonoid zone, Fossil Hill Member (Favret Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• The horizon pertains to the Frechites occidentalis Zone, which is late Anisian (Middle Triassic) in age
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; calcareous mudstone and brown, gray shale
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: N. D. Smith, N. Klein, P. M. Sander and L. Schmitz. 2024. A new pseudosuchian from the Favret Formation of Nevada reveals that archosauriforms occupied coastal regions globally during the Middle Triassic. Biology Letters 20:20240136 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 235460: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.07.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis n. gen. n. sp.
Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis n. gen. n. sp. Smith et al. 2024 archosaur LACM-DI 158616 - holotype
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