NMMNH L-3251, Fort Wingate: Norian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Metoposauridae
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Metoposauridae indet.
Watson 1919
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10 specimens | |||||||||
| NMMNH P-18295, 18296, 18309, 18316, 18460, interclavicle and clavicle fragments. NMMNH P-18313, 18351, 18457, jaw fragments. NMMNH P-18458, 18459, skull fragments. NMMNH P-18344, centrum | ||||||||||
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Buettneria sp.
Case 1922
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| NMMNH P-18310, 18311, interclavicle fragments | ||||||||||
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cf. Buettneria sp.
Case 1922
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9 specimens | |||||||||
| NMMNH P-18312, 18343, 18345, 18347-18350, 18355-18356, skull and interclavicle fragments | ||||||||||
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Anomodontia
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? Dicynodontia indet.
(Owen 1859)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| NMMNH P-18448-18449, limb bone fragments | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Archosauria
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Archosauria indet.
Cope 1869
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| NMMNH P-18398, dorsal centrum. NMMNH P-18399, pelvic girdle element | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Parasuchia indet.
Huxley
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5 specimens | |||||||||
| NMMNH P-18293, 18304, 18314, centra. NMMNH P-18452, squamosal. NMMNH P-18453, scute | ||||||||||
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? Parasuchia indet.
Huxley
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| NMMNH P-18303, ischium fragment. NMMNH P-18339, centrum fragment | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Stagonolepidae
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Stagonolepidae indet.
(Lydekker 1887)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| NMMNH P-18451, 18472, plate fragments | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Desmatosuchus sp.
Case 1920
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| NMMNH P-18308, right ilium and partial pubis. NMMNH P-18330, 18293, plate fragment.s | ||||||||||
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? Desmatosuchus sp.
Case 1920
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| NMMNH P-18325, ischium fragment. NMMNH P-18399, partial ilium | ||||||||||
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Stagonolepis sp.
Agassiz 1844
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5 specimens | |||||||||
| NMMNH P-18327, centrum. NMMNH P-18450, 18328-18329, 18398, plates | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | McKinley |
| Coordinates: | 35.4° North, 108.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 10.9° North, 47.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late Triassic |
| Stage: | Norian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Norian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 227 - 208.5 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Chinle | Formation: | Bluewater Creek | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Adamanian LVF; radiometric dates suggest that the Chinle is entirely Norian in age. Also known as the Bluewater Creek Member of the Chinle Formation. 40 m above base of formation, 20 m below Blue Mesa Mbr, at approx. level of McGaffey Mbr (absent at this locaity) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "a very well-indurated intraformational conglomerate" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | NMMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 75651 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-10-24 07:04:15 | Last modified: | 2010-01-25 06:04:25 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-10-24 07:04:15 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 25561. | ETE | A. B. Heckert. 1997. The tetrapod fauna of the Upper Triassic lower Chinle Group (Adamanian: latest Carnian) of the Zuni Mountains, west-central New Mexico. In S. G. Lucas, J. W. Estep, T. E. Williamson, & G. S. Morgan (eds.), New Mexico's Fossil Record 1. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 11:29-39 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |