General Blue Forest Area (UCMP 7038) (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.9° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Blue Mesa Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• orig. listed as lower part of Petrified Forest Mb.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Mexia, UCMP, NPS in the 1919, 1921, 1923, 1964, 1980s; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: C. L. Camp. 1930. A study of the phytosaurs with description of new material from western North America. University of California Memoirs 10:1-174 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93123: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 05.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Machaeroprosopus adamanensis n. sp." = Smilosuchus adamanensis, Leptosuchus sp.
"Machaeroprosopus adamanensis n. sp." = Smilosuchus adamanensis Camp 1930 archosaur
UCMP 26699, skull, lower jaw, and much of postcranium
Leptosuchus sp. Case 1922 archosaur
UCMP 26717, postcrania. UCMP 26718, left femur. UCMP 26697, sacrals, ischium, rib. UCMP 26706, lower jaw
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni Branson 1905 tetrapod
UCMP 26708, 26707, 26695, 28715, parts of four skulls and large number of pectoral fragments