Episcoposaurus horridus type, Arroyo Seco (Triassic of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
"Episcoposaurus horridus n. gen. n. sp." = Typothorax coccinarum
"Episcoposaurus horridus n. gen. n. sp." = Typothorax coccinarum Cope 1875 aetosaur
Postcrania