Flattops West, PFV 71 (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as PEFO 85146, UCMP V82259

Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.8° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Petrified Forest Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• "Upper Petrified Forest Formation"; now known as the Petrified Forest Member (Woody 2003) or the Painted Desert Member of the Petrified Forest Formation (Heckert & Lucas 2002).

•- Below Painted Desert Sanstone 3

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCMP in 1982; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57684: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 16.12.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano, Richard Butler and Bryan Gee

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Ceratodontiformes - Arganodontidae
Arganodus sp. Martin 1979 Australian lungfish
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Saurischia indet. Seeley 1888 saurischian
UCMP 126751, distal right femur
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Pseudopalatinae indet." = Mystriosuchini
"Pseudopalatinae indet." = Mystriosuchini Huene 1915 archosaur
UCMP, scute
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Typothorax coccinarum Cope 1875 aetosaur
UCMP 126956, 126958, 126959, 126872, paramedian plates and plate fragments