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 Member (Chinle Formation), 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: "floodplain"; brown, red, silty mudstone and lenticular, yellow, sandy siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. Dello-Russo in 1996; 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 93578: 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-18386, centrum. NMMNH P-18469, 18470, skull fragments. NMMNH P-18471, clavicle and interclavicle fragments
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