Blue Hills 3, UCMP 7310 (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.5° N, 109.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 48.0° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCMP in 1924; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: C. L. Camp. 1930. A study of the phytosaurs with description of new material from western North America. University of California Memoirs 10:1-174 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 92911: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.12.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Machaeroprosopus zunii" = Smilosuchus adamanensis
"Machaeroprosopus zunii" = Smilosuchus adamanensis Camp 1930 archosaur
UCMP 27060, in part, squamosal
 Pseudosuchia -
Poposaurus gracilis Mehl 1915 archosaur
UCMP 27059, partial left femur
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni Branson 1905 tetrapod
UCMP 27059, interclavicle