Also known as Manassas
Where: Prince William County, Virginia (38.8° N, 77.5° W: paleocoordinates 13.1° N, 21.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Poolesville Member (Manassas Sandstone Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• The site lies in the upper 1/3rd of the early Norian Poolesville Member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; micaceous, gray, red, silty shale and massive, red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: G. Christe and R. E. Weems. 2004. A new Upper Triassic dinosaur & reptile track site, Culpeper Basin, Prince William County, Virginia. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 36(2):96 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 105551: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 22.02.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Gnathostomata | |
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Reptilia | |
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod | |
Kayentapus minor Hitchcock 1858 theropod | |
Gregaripus sp. Weems 1987 ornithischian |