Also known as Westfield fish bed
Where: Middlesex County, Connecticut (41.6° N, 72.7° W: paleocoordinates 22.3° N, 19.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: East Berlin Formation (Meriden Group), Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)
• in the "Westfield fish bed"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; black, gray, silty, calcareous shale and massive, gray, calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: B. Schaeffer and N. G. McDonald. 1978. Redfieldiid fishes from the Triassic-Liassic Newark Supergroup of eastern North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 159(4):129-174 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 224082: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.01.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
"Catopterus anguilliformis n. sp." = Redfieldius anguilliformis
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Actinopteri | |
Semionotus sp. Agassiz 1832 | |
Coelacanthimorpha | |
Diplurus longicaudatus Newberry 1878 coelacanth |