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Year 2009

 

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By rss@youtube.com (Amebelodon) Part one of my tour. Check out the Placerias, Desmatosuchus, and Postosuchus mounts! Author: Amebelodon Keywords: Paleontology Petrified Forest National Park Museum Postosuchus Placerias Desmatosuchus Aetosaur Triassic Added: February 22, 2009

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November of 2008

 

Rate Chinleana: Enigmatic Taxa I - <i>Acallosuchus rectori</i>

Original at Chinleana external link    Sun, Nov 16

By Bill Parker Geology and paleontology of the Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park and vicinity, Arizona and a discussion of vertebrate fossils of the southwestern Upper Triassic, p. 29-64. In S.G. Lucas and A.P. Hunt (eds. ...

Rate Chinleana: New <i> Vancleavea </i> Material

Original at Chinleana external link    Sun, Nov 2

By Bill Parker Vancleavea campi was named by Long and Murry (1995) based on a very fragmentary postcranial skeleton from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation (Blue Mesa Member) of Petrified Forest National Park. Because of the incomplete nature of the ...

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Original at City Journalist Directory external link    Fri, Oct 31

Millions of years ago this area was once a vast floodplain and home to many crocodile-like reptiles, giant amphibians and small dinosaurs until the late Triassic period in which the area sank and was completely flooded. ...

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Rate Chinleana: New "Proto-Turtle" from the Late Triassic of New Mexico

Original at Chinleana external link    Thu, Oct 9

By Bill Parker Advances in Late Triassic vertebrate paleontology based on new material from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona; pp. 45-58 in A. B. Heckert and S. G. Lucas (eds.), New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 29. ...

Rate No Carnian aged deposits in the Chinle Formation?

Original at Chinleana external link    Sat, Sep 20

By Bill Parker Aetosaur dermal armor from the Late Triassic of southwestern North America, with special reference to material from the Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 54:45-68. ...

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