Where: Navajo County, Arizona (34.8° N, 109.9° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 48.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• Approximate level of the basal Rainbow Forest bed of the Sonsela Member, about 11 to 12 m below Flattops Sandstone 1; originally referred to as lower Petrified Forest Member by Long & Murry (1995)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCMP in 1981-1985; 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 93232: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 08.01.2010

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