Petrified Forest National Park: Late/Upper Triassic, Arizona

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Kryphioparma n. gen. caerula
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Arizona
Coordinates: 34.9° North, 109.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.3° North, 48.2° West
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
10 m.y. bin:Triassic 3-4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Triassic
Age range of interval:237.00000 - 201.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chinle Member:Blue Mesa
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,blue poorly lithified muddy,carbonaceous claystone
Secondary lithology: poorly lithified carbonaceous siltstone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils,all microfossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:231952
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Dinkelman
Modifier:M. Dinkelman Research group:taphonomy,vertebrate
Created:2023-10-07 16:53:47 Last modified:2023-10-07 18:59:25
Access level:the public Released:2023-10-07 16:53:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

85986. W.A. Reyes, W.G. Parker, and A. B. Heckert. 2023. A new aetosaur (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from the upper Blue Mesa Member (Adamanian: Early–Mid Norian) of the Late Triassic Chinle Formation, northern Arizona, USA, and a review of the paratypothoracin Tecovasuchus across the southwestern USA. PaleoBios 40(9) [M. Uhen/M. Dinkelman]