Walker's Site (PF82) (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as Devil's Cauldron

Where: Navajo County, Arizona (35.0° N, 109.9° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Petrified Forest Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• lower part of member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by NPS in the mid-1930s; 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 92929: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 11.12.2009

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Leptosuchus adamanensis" = Smilosuchus adamanensis
"Leptosuchus adamanensis" = Smilosuchus adamanensis Camp 1930 archosaur
USNM, skull and jaws
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni Branson 1905 tetrapod
NPS 72-39, skull and jaws