Sloan Canyon, NMMNH Loc. 325 (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as NMMNH L-325, Sloan Creek

Where: Union County, New Mexico (36.9° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.8° N, 42.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sloan Canyon Formation (Chinle Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Apachean

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; conglomerate

• "a lacustine-beach deposit"
• "a well-sorted intraformational conglomerate"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by A. Hunt & S. Lucas; reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1993. Late Triassic microvertebrate localities in New Mexico (USA): implications for paleoecology. In S. G. Lucas and M. Morales (eds.), The Nonmarine Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 3:187-191 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 83740: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.08.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Darwinulidae
Darwinula sp. Brady and Robertson 1885 ostracod
"two species"
  -
Gerdalia sp. Belousova 1961 ostracod
"two species"
Reptilia
 Archosauria -
Archosauria indet. Cope 1869 archosaur
 Pterosauria -
? Pterosauria indet. pterosaur
tooth
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae von Huene 1915 archosaur
Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Semionotidae indet. Woodward 1890
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Redfieldiidae
Redfieldiidae indet. Hutchinson 1973
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes -
Lissodus sp. Brough 1935 elasmobranch
"new species"