Main Elk Creek, DMNH loc. 1306 (Triassic to of the United States)

Where: Garfield County, Colorado (39.8° N, 106.3° W: paleocoordinates 15.8° N, 45.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chinle Formation, Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• "The tetrapod assemblage is regarded as middle–late Norian in age (Revueltian land vertebrate faunachron)" - Pardo et al. (2017)

•From the informally named "red siltstone member"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; lithified, red siltstone

• "Indurated red siltstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the DMNH

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: B. J. Small. 1998. The occurrence of Aetosaurus in the Chinle Formation (Late Triassic, USA) and its biostratigraphic significance. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1998:285-296 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92089: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 29.10.2009, edited by Emma Dunne and Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
  -
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
 Diapsida -
Archosauriformes indet.1 Gauthier 1986 archosauromorph
 Dinosauromorpha -
Dinosauriformes indet.2 Novas 1992 ornithodiran
DMNH EPV.27699, DMNH EPV.43126, DMNH EPV.43588, and DMNH EPV.44616 (prox. femora); DMNH EPV.56652 (tibia)
 Dinosauromorpha - Silesauridae
? Silesauridae indet.2 Langer et al. 2010 ornithodiran
DMNH EPV.34028 (distal R femur)
Kwanasaurus williamparkeri2 Martz and Small 2019 ornithodiran
DMNH EPV.57599 (dentary); DMNH EPV.43577 (tooth); DMNH EPV.59302 (L humerus); DMNH EPV.48506 (L ilium); DMNH EPV.52195 (partial ilium); DMNH EPV.44616 (prox. R femur); DMNH EPV.56651, DMNH EPV.59301 (prox. L femora);
 Lagerpetidae - Lagerpetidae
Dromomeron romeri2 Irmis et al. 2007 ornithodiran
DMNH EPV.54826; DMNH EPV.63873 (femora), DMNH EPV.29956 (R humerus)
 Pseudosuchia -
Rauisuchia indet. Huene 1942 archosaur
Aetosauria indet. Lydekker 1889 aetosaur
Two possible new taxa
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Stenomyti huangae4 Small and Martz 2013 aetosaur
DMNH 29409, 32814-17, 34019-34022, 34025, 34027, 34030, 34032, scutes. DMNH 30575, right dentary. DMNH 34031, left femur. DMNH 34565, associated partial skeleton. DMNH 34023, partial femur. DMNH 34024, 34026, cervical vertebrae
 Pseudosuchia - Poposauridae
Poposauridae indet. Nopcsa 1923 archosaur
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Chinlestegophis jenkinsi n. gen. n. sp.3
Chinlestegophis jenkinsi n. gen. n. sp.3 Pardo et al. 2017 tetrapod
DMNH 56658 (Holotype) partial skull with lower jaw and disarticulated postcrania. Discovered by Bryan J. Small in 1999