MNA 1454, Ward's Terrace (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Coconino County, Arizona (35.9° N, 111.3° W: paleocoordinates 11.7° N, 49.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Adamanian LVF

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Kirby, P. Luttrell in 1991

Primary reference: S. G. Lucas and A. B. Heckert. 2002. Skull of the dicynodont Placerias from the Upper Triassic of Arizona. In A. B. Heckert, S. G. Lucas (eds.), Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Palaeontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 21:127-130 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93500: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 20.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia - Stahleckeriidae
Placerias hesternus Lucas 1904 dicynodont
MNA V8464, partial skull