Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.7° N, 109.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.3° N, 48.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Blue Mesa Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• Location section S1
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; burrowed, intraclastic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• SMU: Southern Methodist University
Primary reference: M. J. Polcyn, D. A. Winkler, L. L. Jacobs and K. Newman. 2002. Fossil occurrences and structural disturbance in the Triassic Chinle Formation at North Stinking Springs Mountain near St. Johns, Arizona. In A. B. Heckert, S. G. Lucas (eds.), Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 21:43-49 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 92856: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 02.12.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
"Buettneria sp." = Anaschisma, Apachesaurus sp.
"Buettneria sp." = Anaschisma Branson 1905 tetrapod
Apachesaurus sp. Hunt 1993 tetrapod | |
Reptilia | |
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