Dead Wash 2 (UCMP V82269, PFV 65) (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as PF65

Where: Apache County, Arizona (35.0° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCMP in 1982; 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 93425: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 19.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Apachesaurus gregorii Hunt 1993 tetrapod
UCMP 130018, centrum
Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Typothorax coccinarum Cope 1875 aetosaur
UCMP 126967, paramedian plate fragment