The Tepees tracksites, PEFO (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as Teepees, NMMNH L-6733

Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.9° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blue Mesa Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• upper part of Newspaper Sandstone fluvial complex = Newspaper Rock Bed; not Monitor Butte Member as originally reported; "Adamanian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; fine-grained sandstone

• "tops of ripple-laminated and plane-bedded, fine-grained sandstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. J. Martin and S. T. Hasiotis. 1998. Vertebrate tracks and their significance in the Chinle Formation (Late Triassic), Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. In V. L. Santucci & L. McClelland (eds.), National Park Service Geologic Resources Division Technical Report NPS/NRGRD/GRDTR-98/01. National Park Service Paleontological Research Volume 3:138-143 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 62286: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Rhynchosauroides sp. Maidwell 1911 squamates
PEFO 4934
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Eubrontes sp. Hitchcock 1845 theropod
cf. Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod
similar to Atreipus but bipedal; ornithischian or theropod