Rossway, St Mary's Bay (Triassic of Canada)

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (44.6° N, 65.9° W: paleocoordinates 20.0° N, 13.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Blomidon Formation (Chatham Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• middle part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; red, white, yellow sandstone

• "white to buff and red granule-bearing sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Olsen, Salvia & Heimlick in 1975; reposited in the YPM

Primary reference: P. E. Olsen, A. R. McCune, and K. S. Thomson. 1982. Correlation of the early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup by vertebrates, principally fishes. American Journal of Science 282:1-44 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107287: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 04.04.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Rutiodon sp. Emmons 1856 archosaur
YPM 7920; Rostrum, scutes, mandibular fragment