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
Amphibia | |
Apachesaurus gregorii Hunt 1993 tetrapod CFMNH, skull and lower jaws with centra. UCMP 129830, plate fragments
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Reptilia | |
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"Pseudopalatinae indet." = Mystriosuchini
"Pseudopalatinae indet." = Mystriosuchini Huene 1915 archosaur UCMP 126993, 126987, squamosals. UCMP 129839, femur. UCMP 126748, maxilla
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Typothorax coccinarum Cope 1875 aetosaur UCMP 126806, 126808, 126809, 126858, 126867, 126905, 126907, 126911, 126912, 126915-126927, paramedian and lateral plates
"Desmatosuchus chamaensis" = Rioarribasuchus chamaensis2 Zeigler et al. 2002 aetosaur PEFO 31162, caudal paramedian plate. PEFO 34040, lateral plate. UCMP 129829, paramedian plate
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Osteichthyes | |
Arganodus sp. Martin 1979 Australian lungfish |