Boot Ridge (PF46) (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Arizona (35.0° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• "Upper Petrified Forest Formation"; now known as the Petrified Forest Member (Woody 2003) or the Painted Desert Member of the Petrified Forest Formation (Heckert & Lucas 2002).

•8 to 9 metres below Painted Desert Sandstone 1

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93423: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 19.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Ceratodontiformes - Arganodontidae
Arganodus sp. Martin 1979 Australian lungfish
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Apachesaurus gregorii Hunt 1993 tetrapod
UCMP, centrum and plate fragments
Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Typothorax coccinarum Cope 1875 aetosaur
UCMP, paramedian plate fragment