MNA 1496, 5 km NE Many Farms (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Apache County, Arizona (36.4° N, 109.6° W: paleocoordinates 12.0° N, 47.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 17 metres below the base of the Sonsela Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; gray, green mudstone

• "Green-gray mudstone lens...finely laminated and contains numerus small mud rip-up clasts"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by N. Mikeson, D. Gillette in 1997, 1999

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• MNA: Museum of Northern Arizona

Primary reference: W. G. Parker. 2008. Description of new material of the aetosaur Desmatosuchus spuriensis (Archosauria: Suchia) from the Chinle Formation of Arizona and a revision of the genus. PaleoBios 28:1-40 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94497: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 23.02.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
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Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
Centrum
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae
"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae von Huene 1915 archosaur
Teeth
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Desmatosuchus spurensis Case 1920 aetosaur
MNA V9300, partial skeleton