Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.2° N, 64.4° W: paleocoordinates 20.8° N, 12.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Red Head Member (Blomidon Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• "The Blomidon Formation forms part of the Fundy Group in the Fundy basin of the Newark Supergroup and ranges in age from the Norian to the Hettangian. NSM 998GF45.1 was found in the basal portion of the Blomidon Formation, in the upper part of the Red Head Member, about 15 m below the base of the overlying undivided remainder of the formation. Based on stratigraphic correlation with the Newark basin and on the polarity stratigraphy in the GAV-3 core through the

•Blomidon Formation, the Red Head Member near Paddy’s Island most likely correlates with polarity zone E15 and members R–U of the Passaic Formation (Olsen and Kent, in press)." Sues et al. (2000: fig. 1) show this specimen as Norian in age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; massive, pebbly sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Brown in 1983

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• NSM: Nova Scotia Museum

Primary reference: P. E. Olsen and D. Baird. 1986. The ichnogenus Atreipus and its significance for Triassic biostratigraphy. In: K. Padian (ed.), The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Changes Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 61-87 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89142: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 06.05.2009, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)