Also known as Petrified Forest, Giant Logs, Long Logs, PEFO
Where: Navajo County, Arizona (34.8° N, 109.9° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 48.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sonsela Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• in the Agate Bridge bed; "Revueltian"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 2006. Late Triassic tetrapod tracks from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. In J. D. Harris, S. G. Lucas, J. A. Spielmann, M. G. Lockley, A. R. C. Milner, J. I. Kirkland (eds.), The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:221-225 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 84187: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.09.2008, edited by Margaret Shalap and Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Rhynchosauroides sp. Maidwell 1911 squamates | |
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Equisetopsida | |
Araucarioxylon arizonicum1 Knowlton 1888 |