Where: Bucks County, Pennsylvania (40.3° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 14.9° N, 20.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Stockton Formation (Chatham Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• Originally described as from the "Norristown shale"; lower Stockton Formation according to Olsen (1988: Paleoecology and Paleoenvironments of the Continental Early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup of Eastern North America: In ed. W. Manspeizer, Triassic-Jurassic Rifting and the opening of the Atlantic Ocean, Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 185-230.)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by G. V. Ingen, W. J. Sinclair; reposited in the YPM
Primary reference: W. J. Sinclair. 1917. A new labyrinthodont from the Triassic of Pennsylvania. American Journal of Science 256:319-321 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 107422: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 07.04.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Calamops paludosus n. gen. n. sp.
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