Hell Wash (UCMP V82272, PFV 37) (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as PF37

Where: Apache County, Arizona (35.0° N, 109.9° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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).

•"just above Goblin Sandstone"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCMP in the 1980s; 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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93460: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 19.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Ceratodontiformes - Arganodontidae
Arganodus sp. Martin 1979 Australian lungfish
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
"? Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni
"? Buettneria perfecta" = Anaschisma browni Branson 1905 tetrapod
Reptilia
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Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Pseudopalatinae indet." = Mystriosuchini
"Pseudopalatinae indet." = Mystriosuchini Huene 1915 archosaur
PEFO 4857, posterior ilium
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Typothorax coccinarum Cope 1875 aetosaur
UCMP 126843, 126852, 126857, 126964, 126965, 126968, 126969, 126970, numerous paramedian plate fragments
Paratypothorax sp. Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur
UCMP, numerous plates including paramedians and laterals