Also known as Machaeroprosopus holotype
Where: Coconino County, Arizona (35.9° N, 111.3° W: paleocoordinates 11.7° N, 49.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Petrified Forest Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• Long & Murry (1995: 3) noted that this locality was "high in the Petrified Forest Member"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Mehl & Schwartz in 1914
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: M. G. Mehl. 1916. New or little known phytosaurs from Arizona. University of Oklahoma Bulletin 103:5-28 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 93552: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 22.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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? Angistorhinus sp., Machaeroprosopus validus n. gen. n. sp.
Machaeroprosopus validus n. gen. n. sp. Mehl 1916 archosaur UW 3807, skull and jaws (holotype, specimen lost). UW 3808, 3809, posterior skulls (specimens lost)
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