UNM 1056 (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Union County, New Mexico (37.0° N, 102.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.7° N, 41.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sloan Canyon Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithology not reported

• "Majority of specimens in this formation found in lacustrine beach deposits"

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UNM

Primary reference: S. G. Lucas, A. P. Hunt, and S. N. Hayden. 1987. The Triassic system in the Dry Cimarron Valley, New Mexico, Colorado and Oklahoma. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 38th Feidl Conference, Northeastern New Mexico 38:97-117 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94097: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 09.02.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Metoposauridae indet.
Metoposauridae indet. Watson 1919 tetrapod
UNM MV-2040, tooth