Where: Apache County, Arizona (35.0° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 11.0° N, 48.3° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
When: Petrified Forest Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• "Upper Petrified Forest Formation"; now known as the Petrified Forest Member (Woody 2003) or the Painted Desert Member of the Petrified Forest Formation (Heckert & Lucas 2002).
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by NPS, TSU in 1987, 1988
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 93418: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 18.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Apachesaurus gregorii Hunt 1993 tetrapod | |
Reptilia | |
"Pseudopalatinae indet." = Mystriosuchini
"Pseudopalatinae indet." = Mystriosuchini Huene 1915 archosaur | |
Sphenodontidae indet. Cope 1871 lepidosaur | |
Osteichthyes | |
Arganodus sp. Martin 1979 Australian lungfish | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Hybodontidae indet. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch |