Also known as PEFO
Where: Apache County, Arizona (35.1° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 48.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Petrified Forest Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• "Approximately 54 meters below a prominent tuffaceous sandstone bed known as the Black Forest Bed. Riggs et al. (2003) have determined a maximum age for this bed, and thus a minimum age for the quarries, of 213 +/- 1.7 based on U-Pb ages of detrital zircons."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; paleosol/pedogenic, gray siliciclastic sediments and nodular, gray, red siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• PEFO: Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
Primary reference: W. G. Parker and B. J. Barton. 2008. New information on the Upper Triassic archosauriform Vancleavea campi based on new material from the Chinle Formation of Arizona. Palaeontologia Electronica 11(3):14A [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92811: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 30.11.2009, edited by Bryan Gee and Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Koskinonodon perfectus" = Anaschisma browni1 Branson 1905 tetrapod PEFO 35392, skull and intercentra
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Vancleavea campi4 Long and Murry 1995 archosauromorph PEFO 31202, left femur; PEFO 34035, partial skeleton
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