Where: Coconino County, Arizona (36.7° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 23.9° N, 48.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Navajo Sandstone Formation (Glen Canyon Group), Pliensbachian to Pliensbachian (190.8 - 174.1 Ma)
• about 80-100 feet below top of formation
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•Navajo Sandstone forms uppermost part of Glen Canyon Group, and is Early Jurassic, but probably not older than Pliensbachian (Irmis 2005. A review of the vertebrate fauna of the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone in Arizona. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 11:55–71)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: eolian; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by L. Brady in 1934
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: L. F. Brady. 1935. Geology. Museum Notes, Museum of Northern Arizona 7(8):32-33 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 39642: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Sauropodomorpha indet. sauropodomorph |