Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 106.5° W: paleocoordinates 11.5° N, 45.4° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Petrified Forest Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• described as "Revueltan" age, Norian; 90 m below contact with Jurassic Entrada Sandstone, 30.8 m below the contact with the Rock Point Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; paleosol/pedogenic, bentonitic, green, red, silty mudstone and green conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. L. Camp, R. Arrias, H. Anderson, G. Barrington, & S. P. Welles in 1928–1933, 1960s, 1999-; reposited in the MCZ, UCMP

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• excavated 1928-1933 by C. L. Camp, R. Arrias, H. Anderson, G. Barrington, and S. P. Welles for UCMP; two specimens of Typothorax collected by Harvard in 1930s

Primary reference: R. A. Long, S. G. Lucas, A. P. Hunt and R. T. McCrea. 1989. Charles Camp: collecting Late Triassic vertebrates in the American southwest during the 1920's and 1930's. In S. G. Lucas and A. P. Hunt (eds.), Dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs in the American Southwest, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 47126: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.02.2005, edited by Richard Butler

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