Anton Chico localities, NM: Aegean - Bithynian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Procolophonidae
Procolophonidae indet. Lydekker 1889
1 specimen
NMMNH-P 55801 (jaw fragment)
Reptilia
Diapsida indet. (Osborn 1903)
3 specimens
NMMNH-P, 2 dorsal vertebrae (55671, 55789), humerus (55778)
Archosauromorpha indet. (Huene 1946)
10 specimens
NMMNH-P, proximal portions of femora (55705, 55711, 55611, 55774); distal portions of femora type A (55612); distal portions of femora type B (55705, 55711); caudal vertebrae (55588, 55667, 55783)
Archosauriformes indet. Gauthier 1986
12 specimens
NMMNH-P, maxilla (55712, 55717); large postorbital (55687); cervical vertebrae (55646, 55723, 55736); dorsal vertebra (55674); humerus (55790); ilium (55686); pubis (55779); ischium (55657, 55768)
Pseudosuchia indet. (Zittel 1890)
24 specimens
NMMNH-P, small postorbital (55679); undetermined cranial material (55695, 55696); quadrates (55766, 55767); dorsal vertebrae (55571, 55606, 55627, 55688, 55697, 55726, 55764, 55795); caudal vertebrae (55631, 55641, 55650, 55739, 55747); scapula (55648); humerus (55644); tibia (55762); fibula (55769); calcaneum A (55602); calcaneum B (55742)
Poposauroidea informal new species
11 specimens
NMMNH-P, cervical vertebrae (55660, 55661, 55699); femora (55708, 55720, 55731); ilia (55732, 55740); ischia (55744, 55771, 55791)
Arizonasaurus babbitti Welles 1947
30 specimens
NMMNH-P, maxilla (55689, 55710); cervical vertebrae (55577, 55593, 55630, 55698, 55719, 55728, 55794); dorsal vertebrae (55606, 55688, 55697, 55739, 55793-55795); femora (55592, 55633, 55714, 55737, 55763, 55777); Ilia (55652, 55683-55685), pubes (55643, 55651), ischia (55648, 55715)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico
Coordinates: 35.2° North, 105.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.8° North, 34.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Anisian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Aegean - Bithynian
Age range of interval:247.20000 - 244.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Moenkopi Member:Anton Chico
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Laterally equivalent to the Holbrook Member of the Moenkopi Formation in Arizona, which is dated as early Anisian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:NMMNH
Metadata
Database number:135441
Authorizer:R. Butler Enterer:R. Butler
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-10-25 21:31:27 Last modified:2012-10-25 05:31:27
Access level:the public Released:2012-10-25 21:31:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

32095. R. R. Schoch, S. Nesbitt, J. Müller, S. G. Lucas, and J. A. Boy. 2010. The reptile assemblage from the Moenkopi Formation (Middle Triassic) of New Mexico. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 255:345-369 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]