ammonites
Flattops SE (UCMP V82246, PFV 76) (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as PF76

Where: Apache County, Arizona (34.8° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 48.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Petrified Forest Member (Chinle Formation), Norian (221.5 - 205.6 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).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by UCMP in 1982; reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. A. Long and P. A. Murry. 1995. Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) tetrapods from the southwestern United States. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 4:1-254 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93444: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 19.01.2010