Red Peak locality (SMU Loc. 131) (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as Saladito Creek

Where: Quay County, New Mexico (35.0° N, 103.5° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 43.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• upper part of formation, two layers

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green siltstone and gray, red claystone

• "a greenish-gray siltstone and at the base of overlying grey-mottled red clay"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. Gregory, P. A. Murry

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: J. T. Gregory. 1972. Vertebrate faunas of the Dockum Group, Triassic, eastern New Mexico and west Texas. In V. C. Kelly & F. D. Trauger (ed.), New Mexico Geological Society, 23rd Field Conference, East Central New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 23:120-123 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84272: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.10.2008, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Metoposauridae indet.2 Watson 1919 tetrapod
Reptilia
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? Reptilia indet.1 Laurenti 1768 reptile
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Redondasaurus sp." = Machaeroprosopus1
"Redondasaurus sp." = Machaeroprosopus1 Mehl 1916 Redonda (Formation) lizard
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Redondasuchus sp.1 Hunt and Lucas 1991 aetosaur
 Parareptilia - Procolophonidae
? Procolophonidae indet.3 Lydekker 1889 parareptile
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Redfieldiidae
Redfieldiidae indet.2 Hutchinson 1973
cf. Lasalichthys sp.3 Schaeffer 1967
Actinopteri
 Perleidiformes - Colobodontidae
Colobodontidae indet.3 Stensiƶ 1916
Bivalvia
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unio sp. Philipsson 1788 freshwater mussel