Petrified Forest, Navajo and Apache Counties, AZ[1]
Named by
Herbert E. Gregory
Year defined
1947
Petrified Forest Member (the United States)
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Petrified Forest Member (Arizona)
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The Petrified Forest Member is a stratigraphic unit of the Chinle Formation in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah.[2] It preserves fossils dating back to the Triassic period.
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PetrifiedForest National Park is an American national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified...
definition, the PetrifiedForestMember (or Formation) is split into three sections: the muddy Lower PetrifiedForest and Upper PetrifiedForest, and the sandy...
up to the latest PetrifiedForestMember: PetrifiedForestMember, Late Triassic, 215 Ma Shinarump Conglomerate, 225 Ma Holbrook Member, Moenkopi, Middle...
marine fossils, petrified wood and fossilized dinosaur bones over 150 million years old (Upper Jurassic Period). The PetrifiedForest Trail is a one-mile...
Triassic time, forming the sediments of the Chinle's PetrifiedForestMember. The PetrifiedForest is composed of reddish-orange bentonite-rich cross-bedded...
the Chinle Formation and Black Prince Limestone of Arizona, the PetrifiedForestMember of New Mexico and the Tecovas Formation of Texas, United States...
AMNH 2318, partial skull. It was collected from the Norian-aged PetrifiedForestMember of the Chinle Formation, at the Arroyo Seco drainage, Orphan Mesa...
Gilboa Fossil Forest, New York, United States, is a petrifiedforest and one of the oldest known forests. Located near the Gilboa Dam in Schoharie County...
the PetrifiedForestMember of the lower half. The Owl Rock Member is best exposed at its type locality near the base of Owl Rock. Here the member crops...
discovered 220‑million-year-old, fossilized, bowl-like pits in Arizona's PetrifiedForest, in part of the Chinle Formation, assumed to be aetosaur and phytosaur...
that is exposed in PetrifiedForest National Park and the Painted Desert. Petrified wood is, of course, also common in this member. Early Jurassic uplift...
the Blue Mesa Member (formerly known as the "Lower PetrifiedForest"). Conifers are the most common and diverse plants, including petrified wood and leafy...
tanystropheids (Reptilia, Archosauromorpha) from northern New Mexico (PetrifiedForestMember, Chinle Formation) and the biogeography, functional morphology...
Creek Formation of central New Mexico (the quarry at Lamy), the PetrifiedForestMember of northern New Mexico, the Bluewater Creek Formation of western...
species, C. bryansmalli, based on a partial skeleton recovered from PetrifiedForest National Park in Arizona. The original specimen was nicknamed "Gertie"...
the petrifiedforest of Lesbos and for public education about the site. It is a founding member of the European Geoparks Network and is a member of UNESCO's...
The Blue Mesa Member is a member of the Chinle Formation. It is located in the PetrifiedForest National Park of northeast Arizona. The colorful bands...
tanystropheids (Reptilia, Archosauromorpha) from northern New Mexico (PetrifiedForestMember, Chinle Formation) and the biogeography, functional morphology...
remains are stratigraphically present in the PetrifiedForest, Bluewater Creek, and Rock Point members of New Mexico. Paleobiota of the Chinle Formation...
tanystropheids (Reptilia, Archosauromorpha) from northern New Mexico (PetrifiedForestMember, Chinle Formation) and the biogeography, functional morphology...
crest on the ilium called the supra-acetabular crest. Additionally, many members of Group X have smooth frontal and nasal bones, which make up the upper...
looking like petrified trees, thereby creating the illusion of a forest made of stone. Since 2007, two parts of the site, the Naigu Stone Forest (乃古石林) and...
Formation (Dockum Group, New Mexico) and the Painted Desert of the PetrifiedForestMember (Chinle Formation, Arizona). Parker et al. (2005) described several...
portraying gangsters. He was praised for his work as Duke Mantee in The PetrifiedForest (1936). Bogart also received positive reviews for his performance as...
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of aetosaur. It is known from a partial skeleton found from the PetrifiedForestMember of the Chinle Formation near Fort Wingate, New Mexico, which is...
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Chindesaurus bryansmalli Long and Murry, 1995 (Dinosauria, Theropoda), from PetrifiedForest National Park, Arizona" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology....