Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.5° N, 109.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 48.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Occurs approximately 8 m above the base of the Blue Mesa Member and 9 m below the Sonsela Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coarse-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. E. Krzyzanowski; reposited in the NMMNH

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: A. B. Heckert, S. G. Lucas, and S. E. Krzyzanowski. 2002. The rauisuchian archosaur Saurosuchus from the Upper Triassic Chinle Group, southwestern U.S.A., and its biochronological significance. In A. B. Heckert, S. G. Lucas (eds.), Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 21:241-244 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93488: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 20.01.2010

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