Where: Natrona County, Wyoming (43.3° N, 107.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° N, 32.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper platy facies Member (Red Peak Formation), Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)
• Upper platy facies of the Red Peak Formation, close to upper transition with sandy facies
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; burrowed sandstone and silty mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Primary reference: D. M. Lovelace and S. D. Lovelace. 2012. Paleoenvironments and paleoecology of a Lower Triassic invertebrate and vertebrate ichnoassemblage from the Red Peak Formation (Chugwater Group), central Wyoming. Palaios 27:636-657 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 135636: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 29.10.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
cf. Chelonipus sp. von Lilienstern 1939 turtle | |
Rhynchosauroides sp. Maidwell 1911 squamates | |
cf. Rotodactylus sp. Peabody 1948 archosaur | |
Chirotherium barthii Kaup 1835 archosaur |