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
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Leptosuchus sp., "Machaeroprosopus adamanensis n. sp." = Smilosuchus adamanensis
Leptosuchus sp. Case 1922 archosaur
UCMP 26717, postcrania. UCMP 26718, left femur. UCMP 26697, sacrals, ischium, rib. UCMP 26706, lower jaw
"Machaeroprosopus adamanensis n. sp." = Smilosuchus adamanensis Camp 1930 archosaur
UCMP 26699, skull, lower jaw, and much of postcranium
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