Moqui Wash (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V4126, V4127

Where: Coconino County, Arizona (35.1° N, 110.9° W: paleocoordinates 5.1° N, 38.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wupatki Member (Moenkopi Formation), Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• About 21 m above underlying Kaibab limestone

•Lucas & Schoch (2002: Lethaia 35, 97-106) inferred the Wupatki Member to be Spathian in age based upon lithostratigraphic correlation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; conglomerate and sandstone

• described as "mudflat" by Peabody (1948)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by Peabody, Welles; reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: F. E. Peabody. 1948. Reptile and amphibian trackways from the Lower Triassic Moenkopi formation of Arizona and Utah. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 27(8):295-468 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 95109: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 07.04.2010, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda -
Tetrapoda indet.1 tetrapod
UCMP 37759-37760; footprints in sandstone
Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
"Chirotherium moquiensis n. sp." = Chirotherium rex
"Chirotherium moquiensis n. sp." = Chirotherium rex Peabody 1948 archosaur
UCMP 37345, 37784, uncollected material
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Mastodonsauridae
"Parotosaurus peabodyi" = Wellesaurus peabodyi2
"Parotosaurus peabodyi" = Wellesaurus peabodyi2 Welles and Cosgriff 1965 tetrapod
UCMP 36713; Nearly complete skeleton