Chinde Valley Pinnacle (PFV 332) (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Apache County, Arizona (35.1° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• multistorey sandstone sheet with paleosol mudtsone intervals; latter contain intergrown carbonate nodules and ferruginous oxides, calcic horizons, root traces. "Bones are found in a unique, localized bluish pedogenically modified mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. D. Marsh and W. G. Parker. 2020. New dinosauromorph specimens from Petrified Forest National Park and a global biostratigraphic review of Triassic dinosauromorph body fossils. PaleoBios 37 [B. Gee/B. Gee]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 218125: authorized by Bryan Gee, entered by Bryan Gee on 18.02.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur
PEFO 34583, left femur (proximal end)