Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.4° N, 109.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.0° N, 48.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
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).
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 93473: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 19.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni Branson 1905 tetrapod UCMP 27196, 27198, interclavicles of several individuals
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Reptilia | |
"Pseudopalatinae indet." = Mystriosuchini
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