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
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 | |
Moenkopia wellesi Schaeffer and Gregory 1961 coelacanth | |
Osteichthyes | |
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Reptilia | |
Anisodontosaurus greeri Welles 1947 crown diapsid | |
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Arizonasaurus babbitti Welles 1947 archosaur | |
Amphibia | |
Eocyclotosaurus wellesi Schoch 2000 tetrapod | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch |