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 | |
Barrancapus cresapi n. gen. n. sp.
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