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Popo Agie Formation

The Popo Agie Formation ( ) is a Triassic geologic formation that crops out in western Wyoming, western Colorado, and Utah. It was deposited during the Late Triassic in fluvial (river) and lacustrine (lake) environments that existed across much of what is now the American southwest. The earliest known dinosaur of the Laurasian continent, Ahvaytum, is discovered from the Popo Agie Formation. Dinosaurian trace fossils and fragmentary fossils of prehistoric reptiles and amphibians, including pseudosuchian reptiles and temnospondyl amphibians, have also been reported from this formation.

Paleobiota

Amphibians

Reptiles

Synapsids

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References

  • Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. .