NMMNH L-2810, Rio Salado: Norian, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Desmatosuchus sp.
Case 1920
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| NMMNH P-22297, partial paramedian plate | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Socorro |
| Coordinates: | 34.3° North, 106.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 9.5° North, 46.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| 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: | San Pedro Arroyo | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Suggested to be late Carnian, Adamanian LVF, but the Pedro Arroyo is correlated with the Bluewater Creek member of the Chinle Formation, suggesting that it is Norian in age. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | "channel" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | NMMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 93570 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-01-25 08:23:28 | Last modified: | 2016-05-27 15:50:52 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-01-25 08:23:28 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 31701. | S. G. Lucas and A. B. Heckert. 1994. Triassic stratigraphy in the Lucero Uplift, Cibola, Valencia and Socorro Counties, New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 45th Field Conference, Mogollon Slope, West-Central New Mexico and East-Central Arizona 45:241-254 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |
Secondary references:
| 31704 | A. B. Heckert. 1999. Upper Triassic tetrapods from the Lucero Uplift, central New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 50th Field Conference, Albuquerque 50:311-315 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |