UCMP V84243, Moenkopi Point: Sinemurian - Pliensbachian, Arizona
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Testudinata indet.
(Oppel 1811)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| UCMP V130859, few fragments of a turtle | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Coconino |
| Coordinates: | 36.1° North, 111.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.7° North, 50.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
| Key time interval: | Sinemurian - Pliensbachian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 199.50000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Glen Canyon | Formation: | Kayenta |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
| Database number: | 137290 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-12-14 01:00:08 | Last modified: | 2012-12-13 08:00:08 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-12-14 01:00:08 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12373. | J. M. Clark and D. E. Fastovsky. 1986. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Glen Canyon Group in northern Arizona. The Beginning of the Age of the Dinosaurs: Faunal change across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, N. C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues (eds.), Cambridge University Press 285-301 [R. Whatley/R. Whatley/R. Whatley] |