NMMNH L-249, 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)

• 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

• "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 93576: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 25.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Metoposauridae indet. Watson 1919 tetrapod
NMMNH P-3659, skull fragment. NMMNH P-17751, 17752, ten limb bone fragments. NMMNH P-17756, vertebra
Apachesaurus sp. Hunt 1993 tetrapod
NMMNH P-3657, skull fragment
Reptilia
  -
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
NMMNH P-3662, 17753, 17757, limb, rib and vertebral fragments
 Archosauria -
Archosauria indet. Cope 1869 archosaur
NMMNH P-3661, 17745, 17756, 17763, cranial, vertebral and scute fragments
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
cf. Stagonolepis sp. Agassiz 1844 aetosaur
NMMNH P-3658, 3663, 17749, 18467, plate fragments
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Parasuchidae indet. Lydekker 1885 archosaur
MMNH P-3656, 17739, 17740, 17747, 17748, 17754, 17755, 18466, cranial and postcranial fragments