ammonites
Apache Canyon, NMMNH L-485 (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as Gregory's Quarry 2, UCMP 6148, YPM 6649

Where: Quay County, New Mexico (34.9° N, 103.4° W: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 43.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Duke Ranch Member (Redonda Formation), Norian (221.5 - 205.6 Ma)

• Apachean LVF. Upper part of the formatiom

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; pebbly, argillaceous conglomerate

• "an unchannelized flow (flood deposit)"
• "a clay-pebble conglomerate"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by A. Hunt & S. Lucas in 1990; reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1993. Late Triassic microvertebrate localities in New Mexico (USA): implications for paleoecology. In S. G. Lucas and M. Morales (eds.), The Nonmarine Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 3:187-191 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 83738: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 28.08.2008, edited by Richard Butler