Jasper Forest S (UCMP V82041, PF167) (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.9° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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 MNA, UCMP in 1978-79, 1981-82, 1985, 1987; 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 93229: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.01.2010, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni Branson 1905 tetrapod
UCMP, plate fragment
Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia -
"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus
"Desmatosuchus haplocerus" = Episcoposaurus haplocerus Cope 1892 aetosaur
UCMP 126885, fragmentary pectoral spike
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur
UCMP 126882, 126890, 126848, 126888, 126892, 129804, 126883, 126887, 126897, plates
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Leptosuchus sp. Case 1922 archosaur
UCMP, quadrate, scute
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur