NE of Fort Wingate, phytosaur (Triassic of the United States)

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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, conglomeratic shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Univ. Chicago in 1913

Primary reference: W. C. Toepelmann. 1916. Phytosaur remains from New Mexico. Quarterly Bulletin of the University of Oklahoma, University Studies 103:40-44 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93560: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 25.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Phytosauria -
"Parasuchia indet." = Phytosauria
"Parasuchia indet." = Phytosauria Jaeger 1828 phytosaur
UC 1251, partial skull