Where: Quay County, New Mexico (35.0° N, 103.7° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 43.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Quay Member (Redonda Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• upper part of Redonda Formation, 2.3 m below a prominent ledge-forming sandstone, the "Redonda Bench". Apachean LVF.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: channel lag; conglomerate and bentonitic mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by P. Sealey; reposited in the NMMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: A. B. Heckert, S. G. Lucas, A. P. Hunt and J. D. Harris. 2001. A giant phytosaur (Reptilia: Archosauria) skull from the Redondo Formation (Upper Triassic: Apachean) of east-central New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society, 52nd Field Conference, Geology of the Llano Estacado 52:169-176 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93672: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 27.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Redondasaurus gregorii Hunt and Lucas 1993 archosaur NMMNH P-31094, giant skull. NMMNH P-31095, smaller skull. NMMNH P-31096-31099, 31101, 31102, 31300-31303, 31588-31591, 36183-36186, 36188, 39298,39299, 39301-39305
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Apachesuchus heckerti n. gen. n. sp.
Apachesuchus heckerti n. gen. n. sp. Spielmann and Lucas 2012 aetosaur NMMNH P-31100, 63426, 63427, three paramedian plates
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