Also known as UCMP V84260, PEFO 85101, Chinde Mesa, Chinde Point, Gertie

Where: Apache County, Arizona (35.1° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 48.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-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).

•1.5 to 3.1 metres above Painted Desert Sandstone 2; 34 m below Black Forest Tuff

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; sandstone and bioturbated, paleosol/pedogenic, ferruginous, blue, calcareous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. Small, R. Long in 1984–1985; reposited in the UCMP

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

Primary reference: S. Colclazer. 1985. Dawn of the dinosaur. Courier. The National Park Service Newsletter 30(8):1-3 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48546: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.03.2005

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