Radar Mesa (Triassic to of the United States)

Where: Coconino County, Arizona (35.1° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 39.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Holbrook Member (Moenkopi Formation), Aegean to Aegean (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Top of the Holbrook Member; Lucas & Schoch (2002: Lethaia 35: 97-106) inferred the Holbrook member to be earliest Anisian (Aegean–Bithynian) in age based upon tetrapod biostratigraphy (Eocyclotosaurus used to correlate Holbrook Member to German Upper Bundsandstein) and magnetostratigraphy

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; green, blue conglomerate

• "thick blue-green conglomerates"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Welles, Benz, Nesbitt; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: S. J. Nesbitt. 2005. The Moenkopi Formation along the Little Colorado River in eastern Arizona. In S. J. Nesbitt, W. G. Parker, R. B. Irmis (eds.), Guidebook to the Triassic Formations of the Colorado Plateau in northern Arizona, Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 9:13-23 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 95112: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 07.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Coelacanthidae
Moenkopia wellesi Schaeffer and Gregory 1961 coelacanth
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Cynodontia indet.1 cynodont
MNHN MAM.1, tooth
Reptilia
 Eosuchia -
Anisodontosaurus greeri Welles 1947 crown diapsid
 Diapsida -
Archosauromorpha indet.3 archosauromorph
 Pseudosuchia -
Poposauroidea indet.2 archosaur
"Chatterjeea-like taxon"; MSM P3260, ilium, "new species"
 Pseudosuchia - Ctenosauriscidae
Arizonasaurus babbitti Welles 1947 archosaur
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Eocyclotosaurus wellesi Schoch 2000 tetrapod
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch