Exeter Golf Course Estates tracksite (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as Exeter Village

Where: Berks County, Pennsylvania (40.3° N, 75.9° W: paleocoordinates 19.0° N, 21.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: TT/Pine Ridge Member (Passaic Formation), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• early Rhaetian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; brown, red siltstone

• "mudflat environment exposed by receding lake waters"
• "brown and reddish-brown siltstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: S. M. Silvestri and M. J. Szajna. 1993. Biostratigraphy of vertebrate footprints in the Late Triassic section of the Newark Basin, Pennsylvania: reassessment of stratigraphic ranges. In S. G. Lucas and M. Morales (eds.), The Nonmarine Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 3:439-445 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62768: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Squamata -
Rhynchosauroides sp.
Rhynchosauroides sp. Maidwell 1911 squamates
 Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae
Batrachopus sp.
Batrachopus sp. Hitchcock 1845 aetosaur
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Eubrontes giganteus, Grallator sp.
Eubrontes giganteus Hitchcock 1836 theropod
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod