Shake-N-Bake, MCZ 40/78a (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as Silty Facies

Where: Coconino County, Arizona (35.7° N, 111.0° W: paleocoordinates 19.3° N, 49.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Silty Facies Member (Kayenta Formation), Sinemurian to Sinemurian (199.3 - 182.7 Ma)

• top of the middle third of the Silty Facies

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; silty, carbonaceous sandstone

• bones found as float on Silty Facies, with some adherent limestone. bones cemented by a "dense, black matrix"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1978; reposited in the MCZ

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: T. Rowe. 1989. A new species of the theropod dinosaur Syntarsus from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(2):125-136 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35249: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.11.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Syntarsus kayentakatae
Syntarsus kayentakatae Rowe 1989 coelophysoid
MNI