Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.1° N, 106.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.3° N, 45.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Petrified Forest Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• Also referred to as Painted Desert Member of the Petrified Forest Formation of the Chinle Group
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Baldwin; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: R. A. Long and P. A. Murry. 1995. Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) Tetrapods from the Southwestern United States. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 4:1-254 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 94151: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 10.02.2010, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Archosauromorpha indet. Huene 1946 archosauromorph | |
Parasuchidae indet. Lydekker 1885 archosaur | |
Typothorax coccinarum Cope 1875 aetosaur AMNH 7634, 7635, partial postcranial skeletons of three individuals
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