UCMP V4123, near Meteor Crater: Spathian, Arizona
collected by Peabody

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Lacertoides indet.
5 specimens
UCMP 37816-20, footprints
    = Rhynchosauroides sp. Maidwell 1911
Klein and Lucas 2010
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Arizona County:Coconino
Coordinates: 35.0° North, 111.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.2° North, 38.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Early Triassic
Stage: Olenekian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 1
Key time interval: Spathian
Age range of interval: 248.9 - 247.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Moenkopi Member:Wupatki
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Lucas & Schoch (2002: Lethaia 35, 97-106) inferred the Wupatki Member to be Spathian in age based upon lithostratigraphic correlation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Collectors:Peabody
Metadata
Database number:135412
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-10-25 02:48:47 Last modified:2021-09-20 13:50:05
Access level:the public Released:2012-10-25 02:48:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

37010. 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]

Secondary references:

78138 M. F. Farmer. 1954. Tracks and trackways of northern Arizona—a record of the past. Plateau 28(3):54-66 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
43346 H. Klein and S. G. Lucas. 2010. Review of the tetrapod ichnofauna of the Moenkopi Formation/Group (Early-Middle Triassic) of the American Southwest. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 50:1-67 [R. Butler/R. Butler]