Lukachukai SE (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Apache County, Arizona (36.4° N, 109.2° W: paleocoordinates 11.9° N, 47.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• lower part of member

•Kent et al. Petrified Forest Member of the Chinle formation falls between magneto zones PF4n and PF2n (roughly 209.95–213.44Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UA in 1927

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 93361: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 15.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni Branson 1905 tetrapod
UA, 4 skulls, 6 interclavicles, 6 clavicles, 4 mandibular rami, 49 vertebrae, 13 limb elements, 3 girdle elements