Dulles Airport main runway (Triassic of the United States)

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)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Phytosauria -
Rutiodon cf. manhattanensis Huene 1913 archosaur
USNM 22381