Also known as Acompsosaurus type

Where: McKinley County, New Mexico (35.5° N, 108.5° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 47.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bluewater Creek Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Mehl & G. Schwartz in 1914

• Univ. Wisconsin

Primary reference: M. G. Mehl and G. M. Schwartz. 1916. The Triassic fossil bearing horizons near Wingate, New Mexico. With a description of Acompsosaurus wingatensis Mehl. Quarterly Bulletin of the University of Oklahoma, University Studies 103:29-39 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93559: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 25.01.2010

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