Round Rock 4A (UCMP V3210) (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Apache County, Arizona (36.3° N, 109.5° W: paleocoordinates 11.9° N, 47.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• Most localities in the Round Rock area are from the Blue Mesa Member (Parker 2005)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCMP in 1932, 1942; 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 93363: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 15.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
"Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni Branson 1905 tetrapod
UCMP 37755, nearly complete skull. UCMP 27234, interclavicle and mandibular rami of large and small individuals. UCMP 27235, fragmentary skull and mandibles, centra
Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Smilosuchus gregorii Camp 1930 archosaur
UCMP 35737, large skull and lower jaws