Also known as Machaeroprosopus holotype
Where: Coconino County, Arizona (35.9° N, 111.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 11.6° N, 38.7° W (Wright 2013)
• 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: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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Machaeroprosopus validus n. gen. n. sp., ? Angistorhinus 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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