Boot Island shore (Triassic of Canada)

Also known as Scoloparia holotype site, , Boot Island reef

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.1° N, 64.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 6.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wolfville Formation (Chatham Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• "The Wolfville Formation has been dated as late Carnian based on the presence of the temnospondyl amphibian "Metoposaurus" bakeri, which elsewhere occurs in the well-dated Dockum Group of Texas"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. F. Take, D. Baird, L. Duncanson in 1959

• NSM: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax

Primary reference: R. L. Carroll, E. S. Belt, D. L. Dineley, D. Baird, and D. C. McGregor. 1972. In D. J. Glass (ed.), Guidebook: Excursion A59. Vertebrate Palaeontology of Eastern Canada 1-113 [R. Butler/E. Dunne/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80093: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Jana Dummasch on 03.04.2008, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Parareptilia - Procolophonidae
Scoloparia glyphanodon n. gen. n. sp.
Scoloparia glyphanodon n. gen. n. sp. Sues and Baird 1998 parareptile