Phytosaur Basin W (UCMP V82276, PFV 119) (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.9° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• This collection was originally listed as in the lower Petrified Forest Member by Long & Murry (1995); however, the nearby "Phytosaur Basin (UCMP 7040)" locality has been relocated in the Blue Mesa Member

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCMP in 1981, 1982; 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 92824: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 01.12.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
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Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Leptosuchus sp. Case 1922 archosaur
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur
UCMP 126975, large paramedian knob