Where: Union County, New Mexico (36.9° N, 103.4° W: paleocoordinates 11.8° N, 42.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sloan Canyon Formation (Chinle Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; fine-grained, medium, quartzose, white sandstone and gray, green, white, calcareous siltstone
•"whitish gray-green, very thinly bedded, calcareous siltstones and fine sandstones"
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collected by Hyde in 1927
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: D. Baird. 1964. Dockum (Late Triassic) reptile footprints from New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 38(1):118-125 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46560: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Rhynchosauroides sp. Maidwell 1911 squamates | |
"cf. Anchisauripus hitchcocki" = Grallator tenuis
"cf. Anchisauripus hitchcocki" = Grallator tenuis Hitchcock 1858 theropod | |
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Osteichthyes | |
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