Bowman Locality, PFV 89 (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as PEFO 85165, UCMP V84244, MNA 302/23

Where: Apache County, Arizona (35.1° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• Jim Camp Wash Beds of Sonsela Member (Parker & Irmis 2005); formerly listed as in the "Upper Petrified Forest Member" by Long & Murry

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCMP in 1983; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 57686: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 16.12.2005, edited by Richard Butler and Bryan Gee

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Metoposauridae indet. Watson 1919 tetrapod
PEFO 31184, partial skull
Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Pseudopalatinae indet." = Mystriosuchini2
"Pseudopalatinae indet." = Mystriosuchini2 Huene 1915 archosaur
PEFO 4857, squamosal
 Loricata - Rauisuchidae
Postosuchus sp. Chatterjee 1985 rauisuchid
PEFO 31183, femur
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Typothorax coccinarum2 Cope 1875 aetosaur
UCMP, paramedian plate fragment
Paratypothorax sp.2 Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur
UCMP, paramedian plate fragment
 Theropoda -
Neotheropoda indet.3 Bakker 1986 neotheropod
PEFO 31187, proximal femur
 Diapsida -
Trilophosaurus phasmalophos1 Kligman et al. 2020 archosauromorph
PEFO 42082, isolated tooth from the maxilla or dentary; numerous referred specimens