Also known as Petrified Forest, Fossil Cove

Where: Navajo County, Arizona (35.1° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• approx. 50 ft (15.2 m) below "painted desert sandstone number two"; two fossiliferous beds < 1 m apart

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, yellow claystone and brown, red, calcareous claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by P. A. Murry

Primary reference: P. A. Murry and R. A. Long. 1989. Geology and paleontology of the Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park and vicinity, Arizona and a discussion of vertebrate fossils of the southwestern Upper Triassic. In S. G. Lucas and A. P. Hunt (eds.), Dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs in the American Southwest, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque 29-64 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84263: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.10.2008, edited by Richard Butler

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