List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Poposauroidea indet.
Nopcsa 1923
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Nesbitt 2005 | |||||||||
| "Chatterjeea-like taxon", "new species' | ||||||||||
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Arizonasaurus babbitti
Welles 1947
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Nesbitt 2005 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Arizona | County: | Coconino |
| Coordinates: | 35.9° North, 111.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.5° North, 39.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Moenkopi | Member: | Holbrook | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 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 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | UCMP | ||
| Collectors: | S. Welles | Collection dates: | 1946, 1947 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 95095 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
| Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-04-06 08:07:30 | Last modified: | 2012-10-25 03:39:55 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-04-06 08:07:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 32390. | S. P. Welles. 1969. Collecting Triassic vertebrates in the Plateau Province. Journal of the West 8(2):231-246 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |
Secondary references:
| 32399 | S. G. Lucas and R. R. Schoch. 2002. Triassic temnospondyl biostratigraphy, biochronology and correlation of the German Bundsandstein and North American Moenkopi Formation. Lethaia 35:97-106 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 32386 | S. J. Nesbitt. 2005. Osteology of the Middle Triassic pseudosuchian archosaur Arizonasaurus babbitti. Historical Biology 17:19-47 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 32392 | S. J. Nesbitt. 2005. A new archosaur from the upper Moenkopi Formation (Middle Triassic) of Arizona and its implications for rauisuchian phylogeny and diversification. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 2005(6):332-346 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |