Also known as Orpha Mesa
Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 106.4° W: paleocoordinates 11.5° N, 45.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Petrified Forest Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• Also referred to as the Petrified Forest Formation of the Chinle Group
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by D. Baldwin; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1887. A contribution to the history of the Vertebrata of the Trias of North America. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 24(126):209-228 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 94150: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 10.02.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Episcoposaurus horridus n. gen. n. sp." = Typothorax coccinarum
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