Culpeper Crushed Stone Quarry (lower) (Triassic to of the United States)

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

• alkaline or anoxic lake, forming a playa environment
• "a number of massive mudstones are interbedded with much thinner, thinly layered, gray to black shales"; strata are thermally metamorphosed

•"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
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
"Grallator sillimani" = Eubrontes sillimani
"Grallator sillimani" = Eubrontes sillimani Hitchcock 1843 theropod
 Theropoda -
Kayentapus minor Hitchcock 1858 theropod
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Apatopus lineatus Bock 1952 archosaur
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Brachychirotherium parvum Hitchcock 1889 archosaur
 Pseudosuchia -
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"