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Chinle - Bluewater Creek, McKinley County, New Mexico, USA

Formation	Chinle
Member	Bluewater Creek
Age:	228 - 209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Interval	Norian
Lithology	shale, mudstone
Number of Collections	3
Number of Occurrences	3

Recorded Sample Locations

Location	Region	Stratigraphic Name
Fort Wingate	McKinley County, New Mexico, USA	Chinle - Bluewater Creek
Sixmile Canyon	McKinley County, New Mexico, USA	Chinle - Bluewater Creek

Recorded Fossils

Accepted Name	Type	Hierarchy	Age
Doswellia sixmilensis species	7	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Doswelliidae : Doswellia : *Doswellia sixmilensis*	228 - 208.5 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Phytosauria unranked clade	99	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosuchia : Phytosauria	228 - 208.5 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Calyptosuchus wellesi species	7	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Thecodontia : Aetosauridae : Calyptosuchus : *Calyptosuchus wellesi*	228 - 208.5 Ma Late/Upper Triassic

References

Mehl M. G., Schwartz G. M. (1916) The Triassic fossil bearing horizons near Wingate, New Mexico. With a description of Acompsosaurus wingatensis Mehl, Quarterly Bulletin of the University of Oklahoma, University Studies 103, 29-39

Heckert A. B. (1997) The tetrapod fauna of the Upper Triassic lower Chinle Group (Adamanian: latest Carnian) of the Zuni Mountains, west-central New Mexico, In S. G. Lucas, J. W. Estep, T. E. Williamson, & G. S. Morgan (eds.), New Mexico's Fossil Record 1. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 11, 29-39

Heckert A. B., Lucas S. G., et al (2012) A new species of the enigmatic archosauromorph Doswellia from the Upper Triassic Bluewater Creek Formation, New Mexico, USA, Palaeontology 55 6, 1333-1348 doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01200.x

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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