Fossil Garden (UCMP V82252, PFV 098) (Triassic of the United States)

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); may be in the Solsela Member of the Chinle Formation as currently defined

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCMP in 1927, 1981, 1982, 1984, 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 92922: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 10.12.2009, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni Branson 1905 tetrapod
UCMP 129998, centrum
Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Leptosuchus sp. Case 1922 archosaur
UCMP 26683, 26684, 26719, 21780, 27182, skulls. UCMP 26996, PEFO 4858, squamosals
Leptosuchus crosbiensis Case 1922 archosaur
UCMP 27179, small nearly complete skull. UCMP 27181, complete juvenile skull with vertebrae and scutes
 Loricata - Rauisuchidae
Postosuchus sp. Chatterjee 1985 rauisuchid
 Pseudosuchia -
Poposaurus gracilis Mehl 1915 archosaur
UCMP 124954, proximal left femur
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur
UCMP 129999, paramedian plate fragment
 Pseudosuchia -
"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus
"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus Cope 1892 aetosaur
UCMP 126955, paramedian knob