Where: Union County, New Mexico (36.8° N, 103.1° W: paleocoordinates 11.7° N, 42.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sloan Canyon Formation (Chinle Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• level just above that of bones of McQuistion ranch
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; green, red siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace
Collected by B. Brown in 1928; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: D. Baird. 1964. Dockum (Late Triassic) reptile footprints from New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 38(1):118-125 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46563: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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