Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.9° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 48.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Blue Mesa Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• orig. listed as lower part of Petrified Forest Mb.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Mexia, UCMP, NPS in the 1919, 1921, 1923, 1964, 1980s; 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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93123: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 05.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Amphibia | |
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni Branson 1905 tetrapod UCMP 26708, 26707, 26695, 28715, parts of four skulls and large number of pectoral fragments
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| Reptilia | |
Leptosuchus sp., "Machaeroprosopus adamanensis n. sp." = Smilosuchus adamanensis
Leptosuchus sp. Case 1922 archosaur UCMP 26717, postcrania. UCMP 26718, left femur. UCMP 26697, sacrals, ischium, rib. UCMP 26706, lower jaw
"Machaeroprosopus adamanensis n. sp." = Smilosuchus adamanensis Camp 1930 archosaur UCMP 26699, skull, lower jaw, and much of postcranium
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"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur | |