Merry Oaks Quarry, Triangle Brick Company (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Chatham County, North Carolina (35.6° N, 79.0° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° N, 17.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pekin Formation (Chatham Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Schneider, Olsen

Collection methods: quarrying,

• NCSM: North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh

Primary reference: J. Liu and H.-D. Sues. 2010. Dentition and tooth replacement of Boreogomphodon (Cynodontia: Traversodontidae) from the Upper Triassic of North Carolina, USA. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 48:169-184 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107418: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 07.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Therapsida -
Boreogomphodon jeffersoni Sues and Olsen 1990 cynodont
NCSM 11466, 15295, 16292, 16297, 16358, 16364, 18300, 19587, 20660, 20662, 20692, 20698, 20700, 20704, 20712, 21370, 21371, cranial material