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

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• Long & Murry (1995) listed this as the "lower Petrified Forest Member" of the Chinle Formation. It was listed as the Blue Mesa Member of the Lower Petrified Forest by Hunt & Lucas (1993). This is the Blue Mesa Member of the Chinle Formation according to the scheme of Woody (2003)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCMP in 1982; reposited in the UCMP

• MNA: Museum of Northern Arizona

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93135: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 05.01.2010, edited by Mark Uhen

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