Battleship NW, UCMP V82261 (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as PFV 169, PEFO 85075

Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.9° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Adamanian other zone, Sonsela Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• lower part of member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; paleosol/pedogenic, sandy mudstone and poorly lithified sandstone

• "a proximal floodplain facies that has been pedogenically modified."
• "sandy mudstone facies...just lateral to a cross-bedded sandstone...Small extraformational clasts and petrified roots are common here."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1982-2005; reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52501: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.08.2005, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni Branson 1905 tetrapod
UCMP 126865, plate fragment
Reptilia
 Archosauria -
Archosauria indet.2 archosaur
UCMP, proximal left femur
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Leptosuchus sp. Case 1922 archosaur
UCMP 13007, scute
Protome batalaria n. gen. n. sp.4 Stocker 2012 archosaur
PEFO 34034, skull
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Scutarx deltatylus3 Parker 2016 aetosaur
PEFO 31217, partial carapace
Paratypothorax sp. Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur
UCMP 126960, paramedian plate fragment
 Pseudosuchia -
"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus, ? Poposaurus gracilis
"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus Cope 1892 aetosaur
UCMP, lateral horn, caudal centrum
? Poposaurus gracilis Mehl 1915 archosaur
UCMP, sacrum