page_title: List of archosaurs of the Chinle Formation
section_title: Theropods and near-relatives
hierarchical_section_title: List of archosaurs of the Chinle Formation / Dinosauriformes / Dinosaurs / Saurischians / Theropods and near-relatives
caption_attribution_description: English: Life reconstruction of Tawa hallae
context_page_description: The Chinle Formation is an Upper Triassic continental geologic formation in the western United States which has yielded fossils of many archosaurs: a group of vertebrates that includes crocodiles, pterosaurs, dinosaurs, and other extinct relatives.
context_section_description: Indeterminate ceratosaurian remains have been recovered from the Bull Canyon Formation in New Mexico. Theropod tracks have been found in Utah and New Mexico recovered from the Redonda, Sloan Canyon, and Sheep Pen Sandstone formations. Indeterminate theropod remains are stratigraphically present in the Santa Rosa, Petrified Forest, Bluewater Creek, Rock Point, and Garita Creek formations. They are geographically present in New Mexico. Indeterminate herrerasaurid remains stratigraphically present in the Bull Canyon Formation and geographically present in New Mexico.
caption: Tawa
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