Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.4° N, 109.5° W: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 48.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Petrified Forest Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• 3 m above upper level in the Placerias Quarry; also placed in the Petrified Forest Mb of the Chinle Fm. Also referred to the Bluewater Creek Formation
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•Kent et al. Petrified Forest Member of the Chinle formation falls between magneto zones PF4n and PF2n (roughly 209.95–213.44Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: pond; concretionary carbonate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: concretion, coprolite
Collected by L. Jacobs, P. Murray
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: L. L. Jacobs and P. A. Murry. 1980. The vertebrate community of the Triassic Chinle Formation near St. Johns, Arizona. Aspects of Vertebrate History: Essays in Honor of Edwin Harris Colbert, L. L. Jacobs (ed.), Museum of Northern Arizona Press 55-71 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 39219: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.05.2004, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Deuteropoda | |
? Branchiopoda indet. Latreille 1817 branchiopod | |
Gnathostomata | |
Osteichthyes "indet. C"3, Osteichthyes "indet. D"3, Osteichthyes "indet. G"3, Osteichthyes "indet. L"3, Osteichthyes "indet. N"3, ? Osteichthyes "indet. R"3, ? Osteichthyes "indet. Z"3
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Coelacanthimorpha | |
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Osteichthyes | |
Ceratodus sp. Agassiz 1838 lungfish | |
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Reptilia | |
Parrishia mccreai2 Long and Murry 1995 archosaur MNA Pl. 2708, 3081, 3125, cervical centra. MNA Pl. 3071, 3073, 3079, dorsal centra. MNA Pl. 2445, posterior dorsal. MNA Pl. 2746, sacral
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Leptosuchus sp.2, "Leptosuchus adamanensis" = Smilosuchus adamanensis2, "Paleorhinus sp." = Parasuchus2
Leptosuchus sp.2 Case 1922 archosaur MNA V3732, Pl. 2731, 3072, V3736, V3733, V3726, Pl. 3062, Pl. 3069, Pl. 2738, Pl. 2741, V3734, Pl. 3055, Pl. 3056, V3665, Pl. 2736, Pl. 3088, Pl. 2680, V3601, Pl. 3054, Pl. 3057, Pl. 3070, V3727, Pl. 3059, V3667, Pl. 3087, 3097, 2730, 3086, 3063, 3064, 3058, 2740, 3060, 3103, 3085, 3093, 3080, 2742
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Poposaurus gracilis Mehl 1915 archosaur MNA Pl. 3077, sacrum. MNA V3715, dorsal centrum. MNA Pl. 2694, proximal femur
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"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus2
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"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi2 Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur MNA Pl. 2665, 2729, 3090, 3092, 3094, 3091, 2676, 2666, 2667, 2668, 3117, 3129, 2744, 3100, 3101, V3744, postcranial specimens
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Fabrosauridae indet. Galton 1972 ornithischian | |
Tanytrachelos sp. Olsen 1979 archosauromorph | |
Amphibia | |
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Actinopteri | |
? Colobodontidae indet. Stensiö 1916 | |
Semionotidae indet. Woodward 1890 | |
Osteichthyes | |
Palaeoniscidae indet.3 Vogt 1852
cf. Turseodus sp.3 Leidy 1857 | |
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Gnathostomata | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
"Xenacanthus moorei" = Triodus moorei
"Xenacanthus moorei" = Triodus moorei Woodward 1889 elasmobranch | |
unclassified | |
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866 |