Where: Garfield County, Colorado (39.8° N, 106.3° W: paleocoordinates 15.8° N, 45.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chinle Formation, Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)
• "The tetrapod assemblage is regarded as middle–late Norian in age (Revueltian land vertebrate faunachron)" - Pardo et al. (2017)
•From the informally named "red siltstone member"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; lithified, red siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the DMNH
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: B. J. Small. 1998. The occurrence of Aetosaurus in the Chinle Formation (Late Triassic, USA) and its biostratigraphic significance. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1998:285-296 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92089: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 29.10.2009, edited by Emma Dunne and Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile | |
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Stenomyti huangae4 Small and Martz 2013 aetosaur DMNH 29409, 32814-17, 34019-34022, 34025, 34027, 34030, 34032, scutes. DMNH 30575, right dentary. DMNH 34031, left femur. DMNH 34565, associated partial skeleton. DMNH 34023, partial femur. DMNH 34024, 34026, cervical vertebrae
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Poposauridae indet. Nopcsa 1923 archosaur | |
Rauisuchia indet. Huene 1942 archosaur | |
Dromomeron romeri2 Irmis et al. 2007 ornithodiran DMNH EPV.54826; DMNH EPV.63873 (femora), DMNH EPV.29956 (R humerus)
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Dinosauriformes indet.2 Novas 1992 ornithodiran DMNH EPV.27699, DMNH EPV.43126, DMNH EPV.43588, and DMNH EPV.44616 (prox. femora); DMNH EPV.56652 (tibia)
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Kwanasaurus williamparkeri2 Martz and Small 2019 ornithodiran DMNH EPV.57599 (dentary); DMNH EPV.43577 (tooth); DMNH EPV.59302 (L humerus); DMNH EPV.48506 (L ilium); DMNH EPV.52195 (partial ilium); DMNH EPV.44616 (prox. R femur); DMNH EPV.56651, DMNH EPV.59301 (prox. L femora);
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Osteichthyes | |
Cynodontia indet. cynodont | |
Amphibia | |
Chinlestegophis jenkinsi n. gen. n. sp.3
Chinlestegophis jenkinsi n. gen. n. sp.3 Pardo et al. 2017 tetrapod DMNH 56658 (Holotype) partial skull with lower jaw and disarticulated postcrania. Discovered by Bryan J. Small in 1999
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