Also known as Petrified Forest, PEFO

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

• below "flattops sandstone number two"; 2 thin fossiliferous horizons

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; silty limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: replaced with other

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 84266: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.10.2008

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