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
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"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
"Pseudopalatus mccauleyi n. sp." = Machaeroprosopus mccauleyi Ballew 1989 archosaur UCMP 12699, skull and ?associated lower jaws
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Paratypothorax sp. Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur UCMP 126880, paramedian plate. UCMP 126881, lateral plate
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