Lukachukai W (UCMP A270) (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Apache County, Arizona (36.4° N, 109.3° W: paleocoordinates 12.0° N, 47.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• lower part of member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCMP in 1927; 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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93360: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 15.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Leptosuchus sp. Case 1922 archosaur
UCMP, partial snout, right coracoid, distal left femur, scutes
Leptosuchus crosbiensis Case 1922 archosaur
UCMP 27195, 27192, squamosals
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni Branson 1905 tetrapod
UCMP 27191, interclavicles of at least two individuals