Where: Apache County, Arizona (35.4° N, 109.4° W: paleocoordinates 11.0° N, 47.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Petrified Forest Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• lower part of member; has also been assigned to Bluewater Creek Fm.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1937, 1946; reposited in the USNM
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 92912: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.12.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Arganodus sp. Martin 1979 Australian lungfish | |
Amphibia | |
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni Branson 1905 tetrapod USNM 15837, interclavicle. USNM 15838, fragmentary skull
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Reptilia | |
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur USNM 18313, paramedian scutes and partial ilium
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Leptosuchus sp. Case 1922 archosaur USNM 15860, vertebrae and pelvic elements. USNM 18313, relatively complete postcranium
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