Where: Las Animas County, Colorado (37.0° N, 103.0° W: paleocoordinates 11.8° N, 42.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sloan Canyon Formation (Chinle Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• "Apachean"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: M. G. Lockley, S. G. Lucas, and A. P. Hunt. 2006. Eosauropus, a new name for a Late Triassic track: further observations on the Late Triassic ichnogenus Tetrasauropus and related forms, with notes on the limits of interpretation. In J. D. Harris, S. G. Lucas, J. A. Spielmann, M. G. Lockley, A. R. C. Milner, J. I. Kirkland (eds.), The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:192-198 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 84184: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.09.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Eosauropus cimarronensis Lockley et al. 2006 sauropodomorph |