Where: Hartford County, Connecticut (41.9° N, 72.8° W: paleocoordinates 16.6° N, 18.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: New Haven Formation (Chatham Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• middle New Haven Formation according to Olsen (1988: Paleoecology and Paleoenvironments of the Continental Early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup of Eastern North America: In ed. W. Manspeizer, Triassic-Jurassic Rifting and the opening of the Atlantic Ocean, Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 185-230.)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. R. Ensign in 1888; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: R. S. Lull. 1915. Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley. State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin 24:1-285 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91752: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.10.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Belodon validus n. sp.
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