Also known as UCMP V3835
Where: Coconino County, Arizona (35.0° N, 111.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.2° N, 38.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wupatki Member (Moenkopi Formation), Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)
• Three fossil vertebrate horizons occur at Meteor Crater - the middle of these is the main quarry.
•Lucas & Schoch (2002: Lethaia 35: 97-106) inferred the Wupatki Member to be Spathian in age based upon lithostratigraphic correlation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; calcareous sandstone and red mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Camp, Welles in 1938, 1939, 1941, 1958, 1965; reposited in the UCMP
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: S. P. Welles. 1969. Collecting Triassic vertebrates in the Plateau Province. Journal of the West 8(2):231-246 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 95105: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 07.04.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Cosgriffius campi n. gen. n. sp.2
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"Parotosaurus peabodyi n. sp." = Wellesaurus peabodyi1
"Parotosaurus peabodyi n. sp." = Wellesaurus peabodyi1 Welles and Cosgriff 1965 tetrapod UCMP 36058 (holotype), nearly complete skull; numerous skulls and other remains
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