Karen's Point (UCMP V82240, PFV 75) (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as PF75

Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.8° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sonsela 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).

•"On flats below Flattops Sandstone 1 up to and including conglomeratic bed"

•- Now listed as Sonsela Member.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCMP in 1982, 1983, 1985; 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 93443: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 19.01.2010, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Ceratodontiformes - Arganodontidae
Arganodus sp. Martin 1979 Australian lungfish
Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Pseudopalatinae indet." = Mystriosuchini
"Pseudopalatinae indet." = Mystriosuchini Huene 1915 archosaur
UCMP 126993, 126987, squamosals. UCMP 129839, femur. UCMP 126748, maxilla
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
"Desmatosuchus chamaensis" = Rioarribasuchus chamaensis2 Zeigler et al. 2002 aetosaur
PEFO 31162, caudal paramedian plate. PEFO 34040, lateral plate. UCMP 129829, paramedian plate
Paratypothorax sp. Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur
UCMP 129832, paramedian plate fragment
Typothorax coccinarum Cope 1875 aetosaur
UCMP 126806, 126808, 126809, 126858, 126867, 126905, 126907, 126911, 126912, 126915-126927, paramedian and lateral plates
 Dinosauromorpha -
Dinosauriformes indet.1 Novas 1992 ornithodiran
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Apachesaurus gregorii Hunt 1993 tetrapod
CFMNH, skull and lower jaws with centra. UCMP 129830, plate fragments