Where: New Haven County, Connecticut (41.5° N, 72.8° W: paleocoordinates 16.2° N, 18.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: New Haven Formation (Chatham Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• A section of the New Haven Arkose has been dated at 212 ± 2 Ma, indicating a middle Norian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. G. Conrod Jr. in 1965; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: salvage,

Primary reference: H.-D. Sues and D. Baird. 1993. A skull of a sphenodontian lepidosaur from the New Haven Arkose (Upper Triassic: Norian) of Connecticut. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13(3):370-372 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 79375: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.03.2008, edited by Richard Butler

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