Thoreau area (Triassic of the United States)

Where: McKinley County, New Mexico (35.4° N, 108.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 46.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Petrified Forest/Owl Rock Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Either the Painted Desert Member of the Petrified Forest Formation or the Owl Rock Formation (= Petrified Forest and Owl Rock members of Chinle Fm). Therefore equivalent to Petrified Forest/Owl Rock Members of the Chinle Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Camp

Primary reference: A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1993. Triassic vertebrate paleontology and biochronology of New Mexico. In S. G. Lucas & J. Zidek (ed.), Vertebrate Paleontology in New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 2:49-60 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93690: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 28.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae von Huene 1915 archosaur