Arizonasaurus babbitti Welles 1947 (archosaur)

Reptilia - Pseudosuchia - Ctenosauriscidae

Full reference: S. P. Welles. 1947. Vertebrates from the Upper Moenkopi Formation of northern Arizona. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 27(7):241-294

Belongs to Arizonasaurus according to S. J. Nesbitt 2011

See also Charig and Sues 1976 and Welles 1947

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UCMP 36232, a maxilla (Anterior maxilla). Its type locality is Holbrook quarry, UCMP V3922, which is in an Aegean/Bithynian fine channel fill siltstone in the Moenkopi Formation of Arizona.

Ecology: carnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of United States (6: Arizona, New Mexico collections)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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