NMMNH Loc. 55, Barranca Creek (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as NMMNH L-00055, Barranca Badlands

Where: Quay County, New Mexico (35.2° N, 103.5° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 43.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bull Canyon Formation (Dockum Group), Lacian (221.5 - 215.6 Ma)

• early Norian, "Revueltian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Hunt, Lockley, & Lucas; reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. P. Hunt, M. G. Lockley, and S. G. Lucas. 1993. Vertebrate and invertebrate tracks and trackways from Upper Triassic strata of the Tucumcari Basin, east-central New Mexico, USA. In S. G. Lucas and M. Morales (eds.), The Nonmarine Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 3:199-201 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83958: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.09.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Barrancapus cresapi n. gen. n. sp.
Barrancapus cresapi n. gen. n. sp. Hunt et al. 1993 prosauropod
NMMNH P-4782