Phytosaur Basin E (UCMP 7040, PFV 121) (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as Adamana, Phytosaur Basin Buttes

Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.9° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• This collection was originally listed as in the lower Petrified Forest Member by Long & Murry (1995). Rainbow Forest Bed (see Parker & Irmis 2005: fig. 8)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and shale

• Lithology data from UCMP catalogue

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Alexander, Camp; 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 92819: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 01.12.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni Branson 1905 tetrapod
UCMP 27009, interclavicle
Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Leptosuchus adamanensis" = Smilosuchus adamanensis, Leptosuchus sp.
"Leptosuchus adamanensis" = Smilosuchus adamanensis Camp 1930 archosaur
UCMP 27007, cranial material, ribs, "scrap"
Leptosuchus sp. Case 1922 archosaur
UCMP 27008, postcrania
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Typothorax coccinarum, "Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi
Typothorax coccinarum Cope 1875 aetosaur
PEFO 26694, partial paramedian plate
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur
UCMP 126971, scute fragment
 Diapsida - Doswelliidae
Vancleavea campi Long and Murry 1995 archosauromorph
UCMP 178046, dorsal centrum