Also known as Dinosaur Hill, PFV 40, Fossil Cove, Bolt Quarry, FMNH 83-3, PEFO 85119

Where: Apache County, Arizona (35.0° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Petrified Forest Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• "Upper Petrified Forest Formation"; now known as the Petrified Forest Member (Woody 2003) or the Painted Desert Member of the Petrified Forest Formation (Heckert & Lucas 2002).

•5-8 m above Painted Desert Sandstone 1.

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•Kent et al. Petrified Forest Member of the Chinle formation falls between magneto zones PF4n and PF2n (roughly 209.95–213.44Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; paleosol/pedogenic, blue mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by A. & R. Preston in 1982; reposited in the FMNH, UCMP

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

• discovered by Ann & Robert Preston

Primary reference: K. Padian. 1986. On the type material of Coelophysis Cope (Saurischia: Theropoda) and a new specimen from the Petrified Forest of Arizona (Late Triassic: Chinle Formation). In K. Padian (ed.), The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Change Across the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 45-60 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49500: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.04.2005, edited by Richard Butler and Bryan Gee

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