Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.7° N, 109.6° W: paleocoordinates 10.3° N, 48.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Blue Mesa Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• Blue Mesa Member, approximately 10-20 metres above the contact with the underlying Mesa Redondo Member
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•Kent et al. 2019: Kent et al. 2019: Blue Mesa member lies between magneto zones PF5r to PF8n (approximately 221.75–216.97Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; gray, blue mudstone and paleosol/pedogenic, nodular, white sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (float), sieve,
• SMU: Southern Methodist University
Primary reference: M. J. Polcyn, D. A. Winkler, L. L. Jacobs and K. Newman. 2002. Fossil occurrences and structural disturbance in the Triassic Chinle Formation at North Stinking Springs Mountain near St. Johns, Arizona. In A. B. Heckert, S. G. Lucas (eds.), Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 21:43-49 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 92850: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 02.12.2009, edited by Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Ceratodontidae indet. Gill 1872 lungfish | |
Coelacanthimorpha | |
cf. Chinlea sp. Schaeffer 1967 coelacanth | |
Osteichthyes | |
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Reptilia | |
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile | |
Procolophonidae indet. Lydekker 1889 parareptile | |
? Lepidosauromorpha indet. Benton 1983 crown diapsid | |
Sphenodontidae indet. Cope 1871 lepidosaur | |
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Archosauria indet. Cope 1869 archosaur Teeth that may be referable to theropod dinosaurs or poposaurs, skeletal elements and scutes
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? Coelophysidae indet. Paul 1988 coelophysoid | |
? Ceratosauria indet. ceratosaur | |
Ornithischia indet. Seeley 1888 ornithischian | |
cf. Parrishia sp. Long and Murry 1995 archosaur | |
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"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi, Acaenasuchus geoffreyi
"Stagonolepis wellesi" = Calyptosuchus wellesi Long and Ballew 1985 aetosaur
Acaenasuchus geoffreyi Long and Murry 1995 aetosaur | |
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"Chatterjeea elegans" = Shuvosaurus inexpectatus1
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"Phytosauridae indet." = Mystriosuchinae
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Trilophosaurus jacobsi Murry 1987 archosauromorph | |
Amphibia | |
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Apachesaurus sp., "Buettneria sp." = Anaschisma
Apachesaurus sp. Hunt 1993 tetrapod
"Buettneria sp." = Anaschisma Branson 1905 tetrapod | |
Actinopteri | |
Semionotidae indet. Woodward 1890 | |
Colobodontidae indet. Stensiö 1916 | |
Osteichthyes | |
cf. Turseodus sp. Leidy 1857 | |
Redfieldiidae indet. Hutchinson 1973 | |
cf. Australosomus sp. Pivetau 1930 ray-finned fish | |
Chondrichthyes | |
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"Lissodus humblei" = Lonchidion humblei
"Lissodus humblei" = Lonchidion humblei Murry 1981 elasmobranch | |
"Xenacanthus moorei" = Triodus moorei
"Xenacanthus moorei" = Triodus moorei Woodward 1889 elasmobranch originally entered as "Xenacanthas moorei"
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