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    The Chinle Formation is an Upper Triassic continental geological formation of fluvial, lacustrine, and palustrine to eolian deposits spread across the...
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  • The Chinle Formation is an extensive geological unit in the southwestern United States, preserving a very diverse fauna of Late Triassic (primarily Norian-age)...
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  • The Chinle Formation is an Upper Triassic continental geologic formation in the western United States which has yielded fossils of many archosaurs: a group...
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    in the area reveal ancient climates as varied as rivers and swamps (Chinle Formation), Sahara-like deserts (Navajo Sandstone), and shallow ocean (Mancos...
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    Moenkopi formations, streams and lakes of the Chinle, Moenave, and Kayenta formations to the large deserts of the Navajo and Temple Cap formations and dry...
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    Honaker Trail Formation at the canyon river bottom, 150 million years of geologic stratum is exposed. Upheaval Dome consists of the Chinle Formation in the center...
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    containing the fossil logs are part of the widespread and colorful Chinle Formation, from which the Painted Desert gets its name. Beginning about 60 million...
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    unconformity over the Anisian (242–234 Ma) aged Anton Chico Formation. The Dockum and Chinle Formation were deposited roughly at the same time and share many...
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    (Laurasian) continents, and fossils are particularly common in the Chinle Formation and Dockum Group of the southwestern United States. Most fossils have...
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  • been found so far. There are pits associated with footprints in the Chinle Formation, but these "nests" are apparently the result of sandstone weathering...
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    Chinle (Navajo: Chíńlį́) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Apache County, Arizona, United States. The name in Navajo means 'flowing out' and is a reference...
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  • Chinle is a census-designated place in Arizona on the Navajo Nation. Chinle may also refer to: Chinle Formation, a geologic formation in the southwestern...
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  • as the "upper shale member" of the Chinle Formation. Lucas & Hunt (1989) introduced the name "Bull Canyon Formation" for these exposures, referring to...
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  • (2024) identify a specimen of Machaeroprosopus mccauleyi from the Chinle Formation with a sacrum including a sacralized first caudal vertebra, expanding...
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    A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from...
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    Placerias (category Chinle fauna)
    were found near St. Johns, southeast of the Petrified Forest in the Chinle Formation of Arizona. This site has become known as the 'Placerias Quarry' and...
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    Coelophysis (category Chinle fauna)
    Baldwin, had found the first remains of the dinosaur in 1881 in the Chinle Formation in northwestern New Mexico. Early in 1887, Cope referred the specimens...
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    Bryan J. (3 September 2019). "Non-dinosaurian dinosauromorphs from the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic) of the Eagle Basin, northern Colorado: Dromomeron...
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    Triassic. The shuvosaurid Effigia, from the "siltstone member" of the Chinle Formation in New Mexico, may be as young as the Rhaetian, the last stage of the...
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    observed in some dikes of Scotland and northern Ireland. After the initial formation of a dike, subsequent injections of magma are most likely to take place...
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  • bed, member, formation, group and supergroup. Formal names of lithostratigraphic units are assigned by geological surveys. Units of formation or higher rank...
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    Owl Rock (category Rock formations of Arizona)
    Tyende Mesa which is formed of the Triassic Chinle Formation. The Owl Rock Member of the Chinle Formation, composed of cherty limestone and limestone...
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    an older subunit of the Chinle Group (or formation), overlying the Shinarump Conglomerate and underlying the Poleo Formation. The unit was originally...
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    assigned Herbert E. Gregory's (1917) "A" division of the Chinle Formation to the Wingate Formation as the Rock Point Member. It was named for Rock Point...
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    Chinlestegophis, a stereospondyl temnospondyl from the Late Triassic Chinle Formation of Colorado, was proposed to be a stem-caecilian in a 2017 paper by...
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    the formation, which laterally interfingers with the Moenave Formation to the west, is Early Jurassic in age. Hoodoo within the Chinle Formation, west...
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  • Calcare di Zorzino (Italy) Caturrita Formation (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Chinle Formation (SW USA) Cow Branch Formation (North Carolina and Virginia, USA)...
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    Formation), and Europe (Sardinia). The oldest body fossils assigned to crayfish are known from the Late Triassic (~230-200 million years ago) Chinle Formation...
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    species is known from massive tree trunks that weather out of the Chinle Formation in desert badlands of northern Arizona and adjacent New Mexico, most...
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    Triassic Chinle Formation in Northern Arizona. In: Nesbitt, S. J., Parker, W. G. and Irmis, R. B., eds., Guidebook to the Triassic Formations of the Colorado...
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