Chinde Point North 2, PFV 18 (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as PEFO 85099, UCMP V84255, Dinosaur Hollow E, Chinde Point N2

Where: Apache County, Arizona (35.1° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 11.5° N, 48.1° 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).

•About 8 m below Painted Desert Sandstone 3

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCMP in 1984, 1985; 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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52496: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.08.2005, edited by Bryan Gee

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Ceratodontiformes - Arganodontidae
Arganodus sp. Martin 1979 Australian lungfish
Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
PEFO 4849, dorsal vertebra