Nazlini 3 (UCMP V5698) (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Navajo County, Arizona (35.9° N, 109.5° W: paleocoordinates 11.6° N, 47.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Initially listed as "lower Petrified Forest Member" by Long & Murry (1995); Parker (2005) indicates that these localities are in the Blue Mesa Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCMP in 1956; 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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93358: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 15.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Smilosuchus gregorii Camp 1930 archosaur
UCMP 63921, very large skull with complete squamosals