Canon del Cobre (Triassic of the United States)

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
 Diapsida -
Archosauromorpha indet. Huene 1946 archosauromorph
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Parasuchidae indet. Lydekker 1885 archosaur
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Typothorax coccinarum Cope 1875 aetosaur
AMNH 7634, 7635, partial postcranial skeletons of three individuals