MNA locality 530, Fort Wingate (Triassic of the United States)

Where: McKinley County, New Mexico (35.5° N, 108.5° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 47.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: McGaffey Member (Bluewater Creek Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• described as Adamanian; originally assigned to the "Monitor Butte Member"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; micaceous, gray, yellow sandstone and gray, green siltstone

• two tracks preserved on "a ripple-laminated, grayish yellow micaceous sandstone"; one on "an olive-gray siltstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by S. Hasiotis, R. Dubiel

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: S. G. Lucas and A. B. Heckert. 2002. Upper Triassic dinosaur track from Fort Wingate, New Mexico. In A. B. Heckert & S. G. Lucas (eds.), Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 21:245-247 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 83328: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.08.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
aff. Brachychirotherium sp. Beurlen 1950 archosaur
MNA V3303
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod
MNA V1581; Hasiotis 1994 id: aff. Coelurosaurichnus sp.