Chinle Formation
277 distinct taxa, from 1,243 fossil occurrences the Paleobiology Database records under this name, spanning 237–201 Mya.
Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado · US
277 taxa · 1,243 fossils · 237–201 MyaMembers recorded: Petrified Forest, Blue Mesa, Owl Rock, Sonsela, Mesa Redondo, Monitor Butte/Petrified Forest, Monitor Butte, Siltstone, Shinarump, Bluewater Creek, Agua Zarca Sandstone, Salitral.
Macrostrat places this rock in the Dockum Group. Macrostrat’s own record
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87 distinct localities, where the rock is now rather than where it was laid down. Tectonics draws the world it belonged to.
When
What has been found
- Typothorax coccinarum
- Anaschisma browni
- Leptosuchus
- Mystriosuchini
- Arganodus
- Calyptosuchus wellesi
- Metoposauridae
- Reptilia
- Aetosauria
- Osteichthyes
- Apachesaurus gregorii
- Machaeroprosopus buceros
- Phytosauria
- Theropoda
- Archosauriformes
- Archosauria
- Vancleavea campi
- Mystriosuchinae
- Smilosuchus adamanensis
- Paratypothorax
- Postosuchus kirkpatricki
- Redfieldiidae
- Araucarioxylon arizonicum
- Poposaurus gracilis
- Shuvosaurus
- Silesauridae
- Acaenasuchus geoffreyi
- Crocodylomorpha
- Machaeroprosopus pristinus
- Postosuchus
- Revueltosaurus callenderi
- Rhynchosauroides
- Semionotus
- Triodus moorei
- Araucarioxylon
- Dinosauria
- Dinosauriformes
- Saurischia
- Turseodus
- Anaschisma
The 40 most often recorded, of 277.
What else lived thenRank the rock of a period
Counts are of occurrence records, which measure the rock and the fieldwork together.