Dry Creek Tank SE (UCMP V82040, PFV 55) (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as PV55, CLC "Billings Gap", UCMP 7043

Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.9° N, 109.7° W: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 48.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• "Upper Petrified Forest Formation" according to Long & Murry (1995); probably Sonsela Member (Parker & Irmis 2005)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCMP in 1923, 1981, 1987; reposited in the UCMP

• UCMP 7043 and UCMP V82040 "probably" represent the same locality

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 93431: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 19.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Pseudopalatinae indet." = Mystriosuchini, Machaeroprosopus tenuis n. sp., "Pseudopalatus mccauleyi n. sp." = Machaeroprosopus mccauleyi
"Pseudopalatinae indet." = Mystriosuchini Huene 1915 archosaur
UCMP 27019, postorbital. UCMP 27021, humerus and partial femur. UCMP 124956, left squamosal. UCMP 27020, fragmentary mandible. UCMP 27022, cranial and postcranial remains
Machaeroprosopus tenuis n. sp. Camp 1930 archosaur
UCMP 27018, skull and lower jaws
"Pseudopalatus mccauleyi n. sp." = Machaeroprosopus mccauleyi Ballew 1989 archosaur
UCMP 12699, skull and ?associated lower jaws
 Loricata - Rauisuchidae
Postosuchus kirkpatricki Chatterjee 1985 rauisuchid
PEFO 4851, complete left ilium
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Typothorax coccinarum Cope 1875 aetosaur
UCMP 126805, right paramedian plate
Paratypothorax sp. Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur
UCMP 126880, paramedian plate. UCMP 126881, lateral plate