Also known as PEFO 85065, UCMP V82239, MNA 302/53
Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.9° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 48.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Blue Mesa Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• At the top of Blue Mesa Member. Near base of black/grey siltstone, approximately 6 m below Sonsela Sandstone (see Parker & Irmis 2005: fig. 8)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; black siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by MNA, UCMP in 1978-79, 1982-85; reposited in the NMMNH, UCMP
Primary reference: W. Parker and R. B. Irmis. 2005. Advances in Late Triassic vertebrate paleontology based on new material from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Vertebrate Paleontology in Arizona, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 29:45-58 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 57683: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 16.12.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano, Richard Butler and Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Equisetopsida | |
Araucarioxylon arizonicum1 Knowlton 1888 | |
Reptilia | |
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Postosuchus kirkpatricki2 Chatterjee 1985 rauisuchid UCMP 126747, partial pelvis. PEFO 9335, dorsal vertebrae. PEFO 34044, left and right postorbitals
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"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus2
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"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi2
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi2 Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur UCMP 126906, 126864, paramedian and lateral plates. UCMP 126874, left coracoid
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Amphibia | |
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni2
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