Twin Buttes (UCMP 7047) (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Navajo County, Arizona (34.9° N, 109.9° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 48.4° 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 UCMP in 1923; 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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93111: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 05.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Ceratodontiformes - Arganodontidae
Arganodus sp. Martin 1979 Australian lungfish
Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Leptosuchus sp. Case 1922 archosaur
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni Branson 1905 tetrapod