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NMMNH L-6818, Blue Hills

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34.50000, -109.32000View on MapOpen in Google Maps
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NMMNH L-6818, Blue Hills is a fossil collection site in Apache, Arizona, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Chinle Formation, dated to the Norian (227.3–205.7 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as fluvial-lacustrine indet. Documented finds include Arganodus.

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Geologic setting

Formation
Chinle
Geologic interval
Norian
Age
227.3–205.7 Ma
Depositional environment
fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Recorded occurrences
1
Locality notes

Exact locality in Blue Hills is not given

Fossils found here

Arganodus
Osteichthyes · Ceratodontidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 235535 (CC BY 4.0)view the source record

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Coordinates: 34.50000, -109.32000

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