Also known as UCMP V84260, PEFO 85101, Chinde Mesa, Chinde Point, Gertie
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)
• "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).
•1.5 to 3.1 metres above Painted Desert Sandstone 2; 34 m below Black Forest Tuff
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; sandstone and bioturbated, paleosol/pedogenic, ferruginous, blue, calcareous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by B. Small, R. Long in 1984–1985; reposited in the UCMP
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: S. Colclazer. 1985. Dawn of the dinosaur. Courier. The National Park Service Newsletter 30(8):1-3 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48546: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.03.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Chindesaurus bryansmalli n. gen. n. sp.1
Chindesaurus bryansmalli n. gen. n. sp.1 Long and Murry 1995 theropod PEFO 10395, partial postcranial skeleton ("Gertie")
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"Pseudopalatinae indet." = Mystriosuchini1
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Shuvosaurus sp.2 Chatterjee 1993 archosaur UCMP, partial left and right ilia, coossified proximal ischia, left femur
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