NMMNH L-248, Lucero Uplift (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Cibola County, New Mexico (34.9° N, 107.7° W: paleocoordinates 10.3° N, 46.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Middle Bluewater Creek Formation; also referred to as the Bluewater Creek member of the Chinle Formation. Adamanian LVF, previously considered late Carnian but radiometric dates suggest a Norian age for the Chinle

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate and bentonitic, red, silty mudstone

• "Intraformational conglomerate and sandstone thatis sandwiched between slightly bentonitic, red, silty mudstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NMMNH

Primary reference: A. B. Heckert. 1999. Upper Triassic tetrapods from the Lucero Uplift, central New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 50th Field Conference, Albuquerque 50:311-315 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93575: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 25.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Rutiodon sp.
Rutiodon sp. Emmons 1856 archosaur
NMMNH P-28906, partial postcranial skeleton