Where: Coconino County, Arizona (35.9° N, 111.4° W: paleocoordinates 4.5° N, 39.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Holbrook Member (Moenkopi Formation), Aegean to Aegean (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• 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
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collection methods: MNA: Museum of Northern Arizona
Primary reference: F. E. Peabody. 1948. Reptile and amphibian trackways from the Lower Triassic Moenkopi formation of Arizona and Utah. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 27(8):295-468 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 135410: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 25.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Rotodactylus bradyi n. sp.
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