Phytosaur Basin (UCMP 7039, PFV 205) (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, Parker & Irmis (2005: fig. 8) show it as high in the Blue Mesa member

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCMP in 1923, 1927, 1984, 1985; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: C. L. Camp. 1930. A study of the phytosaurs with description of new material from western North America. University of California Memoirs 10:1-174 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92826: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 01.12.2009, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni1, Apachesaurus gregorii1
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni1 Branson 1905 tetrapod
UCMP 27005, centrum; UCMP 27006, centrum, PEFO 23383, right clavicle
Apachesaurus gregorii1 Hunt 1993 tetrapod
UCMP 27006, centrum
Reptilia
 Diapsida - Doswelliidae
Vancleavea sp.2 Long and Murry 1995 archosauromorph
 Loricata - Rauisuchidae
Postosuchus kirkpatricki1 Chatterjee 1985 rauisuchid
UCMP 125538, partial femur
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Leptosuchus sp.1 Case 1922 archosaur
UCMP 27006, cranial and postcranial material
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Parrishia mccreai1 Long and Murry 1995 archosaur
UCMP 125539, cervical centrum