Where: Culpeper County, Virginia (38.4° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 13.1° N, 22.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Groveton Member (Bull Run Formation), Lacian to Lacian (221.5 - 212.0 Ma)
• early and/or middle Norian, 130 ft below upper level
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified, black, gray, calcareous siltstone and mudstone
•"massive, calcareous cemented siltstone"
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected by R. Clore, G. Willis, & F. Harris in the 1990s
Collection methods: surface (in situ), peel or thin section,
• originally discovered by Robert Clore, Gordon Willis, and Fred Harris
Primary reference: R. E. Weems. 1992. Are-evaluation of the taxonomy of Newark Supergroup saurischian dinosaur tracks, using extensive statistical data froma recently exposed tracksite near Culpeper, Virginia. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Publication 119:113-127 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 68889: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.02.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Grallator sillimani" = Eubrontes sillimani
"Grallator sillimani" = Eubrontes sillimani Hitchcock 1843 theropod | |
Kayentapus minor Hitchcock 1858 theropod | |
Apatopus lineatus Bock 1952 archosaur | |
Brachychirotherium parvum Hitchcock 1889 archosaur | |
Aetosauria indet. aetosaur "A fourth (quadrupedal) taxon, apparently a short-tailed barrel-bodied aetosaur similar to Typothorax, appears to represent a new ichnotaxon as yet unnamed"
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