LACM locality 8057, north slope of Favret Canyon (Triassic of the United States)

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

• below wave-base shelf carbonate mudstones

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

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia -
Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis n. gen. n. sp. Smith et al. 2024 archosaur
LACM-DI 158616 - holotype