Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.9° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 48.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Petrified Forest Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• variegated siltstone bed in lower Petrified Forest Member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by UCMP in 1981, 1982, 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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 93113: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 05.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
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Rauisuchia indet. Huene 1942 archosaur | |
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur UCMP 126854, partial lateral scute. UCMP 126856, paramedian scute
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Amphibia | |
Apachesaurus gregorii, "Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
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