PBDB Collection

Battleship NW, UCMP V82261: Norian, Arizona
collected 1982-2005

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia - Archosauria

	Prosauropoda indet. Huene 1920		1 specimen
	UCMP, proximal left femur
	= Archosauria indet. Cope 1869	Nesbitt et al. 2007

	Archosauria indet. Cope 1869	Carrano 2005
Reptilia

	Paratypothorax sp. Long and Ballew 1985		1 specimen
	UCMP 126960, paramedian plate fragment

	Stagonolepis wellesi (Long and Ballew 1985)		1 specimen
	PEFO 31217, partial carapace
	= Scutarx deltatylus Parker 2016	Parker 2016

	Desmatosuchus haplocerus (Cope 1892)		2 specimens
	UCMP, lateral horn, caudal centrum

	? Poposaurus gracilis Mehl 1915		1 specimen
	UCMP, sacrum
Reptilia - Parasuchidae

	Leptosuchus sp. Case 1922		1 specimen
	UCMP 13007, scute

	Leptosuchus adamanensis (Camp 1930)	Parker 2005	1 specimen
	PEFO 34034, skull
	= Protome batalaria n. gen., n. sp. Stocker 2012	Stocker 2012
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae

	Buettneria perfecta Case 1922		1 specimen
	UCMP 126865, plate fragment
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Arizona	County:	Apache
Coordinates:	34.9° North, 109.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	10.4° North, 37.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map
Geographic resolution:	outcrop

Time

Period:	Triassic	Epoch:	Late Triassic
Stage:	Norian	10 m.y. bin:	Triassic 4
Key time interval:	Norian	Other zone:	Adamanian
Age range of interval:	227.3 - 205.7 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Chinle	Member:	Sonsela
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: lower part of member

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	paleosol/pedogenic sandy mudstone
Secondary lithology:	"cross stratification" poorly lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: "sandy mudstone facies...just lateral to a cross-bedded sandstone...Small extraformational clasts and petrified roots are common here."
Environment:	"floodplain"
Geology comments: "a proximal floodplain facies that has been pedogenically modified."

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils
Associated major elements:	some
Disassociated major elements:	some
Disassociated minor elements:	some
Fragmentation:	frequent

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:	UCMP
Collection dates:	1982-2005

Metadata

Also known as:	PFV 169, PEFO 85075
Database number:	52501
Authorizer:	M. Carrano, R. Butler	Enterer:	M. Carrano, R. Butler
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2005-08-09 12:41:29	Last modified:	2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:	the public	Released:	2005-08-09 12:41:29
Creative Commons license:	CC0

Reference information

Primary reference:

14122.

ETE

R. A. Long and P. A. Murry. 1995. Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) Tetrapods from the Southwestern United States. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 4:1-254 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

13103		M. T. Carrano. 2005. Fossil Vertebrate Collections. University of California Museum of Paleontology [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13905	ETE	A. P. Hunt, S. G. Lucas, A. B. Heckert, R. M. Sullivan, and M. G. Lockley. 1998. Late Triassic dinosaurs from the western United States. Géobios 31(4):511-531 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]
78440		K. M. Loughney, D. E. Fastovsky, and W. G. Parker. 2011. Vertebrate fossil preservation in blue paleosols from the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, with implications for vertebrate biostratigraphy in the Chinle Formation. Palaios 26(11):700-718 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
24249	ETE	S. J. Nesbitt, R. B. Irmis, and W. G. Parker. 2007. A critical re-evaluation of the Late Triassic dinosaur taxa of North America. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 5(2):209-243 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
15512	ETE	W. Parker and R. B. Irmis. 2005. Advances in Late Triassic vertebrate paleontology based on new material from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Vertebrate Paleontology in Arizona, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 29:45-58 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]
16671	ETE	W. G. Parker. 2002. Correlation of locality numbers for vertebrate fossil sites in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. A. B. Heckert & S. G. Lucas (eds.), Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 21:37-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
16668	ETE	W. G. Parker. 2005. Petrified Forest National Park: a roadlog. S. J. Nesbitt, W. G. Parker, & R. B. Irmis (eds.), Guidebook to the Triassic Formations of the Colorado Plateau in Northern Arizona: Geology, Paleontology, and History. Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin 9:33-50 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
60800		W. G. Parker. 2016. Osteology of the Late Triassic aetosaur Scutarx deltatylus (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia). PeerJ 4:e2411 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
42466		M. R. Stocker. 2012. A new phytosaur (Archosauriformes, Phytosauria) from the Lot's Wife beds (Sonsela Member) within the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic) of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(3):573-586 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]