Rincon Basin East (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as Winslow

Where: Navajo County, Arizona (35.1° N, 110.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.9° N, 48.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• Level within the "lower Petrified Forest" is unclear, could represent both Blue Mesa and Sonsela members

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G. Niles, UCMP; 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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52502: 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
Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia -
"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus, cf. Revueltosaurus sp.
"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus Cope 1892 aetosaur
cf. Revueltosaurus sp. Hunt 1989 aetosaur
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Acaenasuchus geoffreyi Long and Murry 1995 aetosaur
UCMP, paramedian plate
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Leptosuchus sp. Case 1922 archosaur