Where: Navajo County, Arizona (35.0° N, 109.9° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 48.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Petrified Forest Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• "mudstone between Sonsela Sandstone and brown sandstone, about 6 metres below brown sandstone"; lower part of member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by UCMP in 1985; 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 92928: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 11.12.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
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