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)
• Upper Bluewater Creek Formation (above McGaffey Member); 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
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 93576: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 25.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Metoposauridae indet. Watson 1919 tetrapod NMMNH P-3659, skull fragment. NMMNH P-17751, 17752, ten limb bone fragments. NMMNH P-17756, vertebra
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Reptilia | |
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Archosauria indet. Cope 1869 archosaur NMMNH P-3661, 17745, 17756, 17763, cranial, vertebral and scute fragments
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Parasuchidae indet. Lydekker 1885 archosaur MMNH P-3656, 17739, 17740, 17747, 17748, 17754, 17755, 18466, cranial and postcranial fragments
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