Where: Loudon County, Virginia (38.9° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 13.3° N, 21.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Balls Bluff Member (Bull Run Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• near the base of the Bull Run Shale and the base of the Balls Bluff Siltstone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; calcareous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by D. Dunkle & R. Eggleton in 1959; reposited in the CM
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: R. Weems. 1979. A large parasuchian (phytosaur) from the Upper Triassic portion of the Culpeper Basin of Virginia (USA). Proceedings from the Biological Society of Washington 92(4):682-688 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 103815: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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