Also known as Petrified Forest, PEFO

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

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; medium-grained, gypsiferous, gray, green, cherty/siliceous siltstone and gray, white, argillaceous siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by P. A. Murry

Primary reference: P. A. Murry and R. A. Long. 1989. Geology and paleontology of the Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park and vicinity, Arizona and a discussion of vertebrate fossils of the southwestern Upper Triassic. In S. G. Lucas and A. P. Hunt (eds.), Dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs in the American Southwest, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque 29-64 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84265: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.10.2008, edited by Mark Uhen and Richard Butler

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