Also known as Teepees, NMMNH L-6733
Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.9° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 48.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Blue Mesa Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• upper part of Newspaper Sandstone fluvial complex = Newspaper Rock Bed; not Monitor Butte Member as originally reported; "Adamanian"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; fine-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: A. J. Martin and S. T. Hasiotis. 1998. Vertebrate tracks and their significance in the Chinle Formation (Late Triassic), Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. In V. L. Santucci & L. McClelland (eds.), National Park Service Geologic Resources Division Technical Report NPS/NRGRD/GRDTR-98/01. National Park Service Paleontological Research Volume 3:138-143 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 62286: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.07.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Eubrontes sp. Hitchcock 1845 theropod
cf. Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod similar to Atreipus but bipedal; ornithischian or theropod
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