NMMNH L-913 (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.6° N, 106.8° W: paleocoordinates 11.8° N, 45.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Also known as the Salitral Member of the Chinle Group. The Chinle appears to be Norian in age based upon recent radiometric work.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NMMNH

Primary reference: A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1990. Re-evaluation of "Typothorax" meadei, a Late Triassic aetosaur from the United States. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 64:317-328 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93565: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 25.01.2010, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Vertebrata indet.1 Lamarck 1801
NMMNH P-11005, coprolite
Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
? Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
NMMNH P-11040, vertebra
 Pseudosuchia -
"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus2
"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus2 Cope 1892 aetosaur
NMMNH P-11005, plate fragment
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Stagonolepididae indet. Lydekker 1887 aetosaur
NMMNH P-11007, ? paramedian scute fragments
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae von Huene 1915 archosaur
NMMNH P-11009, 11014, 11019, 11021, teeth, vertebral and rib fragments
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Metoposauridae indet. Watson 1919 tetrapod
NMMNH P-11001, cranial fragments