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
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 | |
Arganodus sp. Martin 1979 Australian lungfish | |
Reptilia | |
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"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur UCMP 126953, plates; UCMP 126954, plate fragment
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"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus
"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus Cope 1892 aetosaur UCMP 126950, paramedian plates
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Osteichthyes | |
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Amphibia | |
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
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