Saurian Valley (UCMP V82251, PFV 097) (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Navajo County, Arizona (35.0° N, 109.9° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• 6 to 8 metre below Sonsela Sandstone according to Long & Murry (1995)

•This collection was originally listed as in the lower Petrified Forest Member by Long & Murry (1995), but as the Sonsela Member by Parker & Barton (2008) and Nesbitt et al. (2009)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone

• Lithology data from UCMP catalogue

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCMP, NPS, USNM, AMNH in 1921-1985; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. A. Long and P. A. Murry. 1995. Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) Tetrapods from the Southwestern United States. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 4:1-254 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92821: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 01.12.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Ceratodontiformes - Arganodontidae
Arganodus sp. Martin 1979 Australian lungfish
 Dicynodontia - Stahleckeriidae
? Placerias sp. Lucas 1904 dicynodont
UCMP 26682, radius and partial ilium and humerus
Reptilia
  -
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
UCMP 126749, caudal vertebra; UCMP unnumbered, ilium
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur
UCMP 126953, plates; UCMP 126954, plate fragment
 Pseudosuchia -
"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus
"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus Cope 1892 aetosaur
UCMP 126950, paramedian plates
 Diapsida - Doswelliidae
Vancleavea campi Long and Murry 1995 archosauromorph
UCMP 178050, caudal vertebra and fragments
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni Branson 1905 tetrapod
UCMP unnumbered, plate fragments