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: Chinle Formation, Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• approx. 15 ft (4.6 m) below base of Sonsela Mb.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, fine-grained, coarse, concretionary, hematitic, gray, green, cherty/siliceous wackestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: concretion
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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84268: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.10.2008, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Rutiodon sp. Emmons 1856 archosaur | |
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur | |
"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus
"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus Cope 1892 aetosaur | |
Saurischia indet. saurischian | |
Amphibia | |
Metoposaurus fraasi Lucas 1904 tetrapod | |
Equisetopsida | |
Araucarioxylon arizonicum Knowlton 1888 |