Gwynedd Tunnel (thin shales) (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (40.2° N, 75.3° W: paleocoordinates 14.7° N, 20.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; poorly lithified, black shale

• "deposited in standing or slowly moving water"
• "thin bedded layers of dark shale...rather soft"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by G. Jepsen, W. Bock, E. Bock in the 1933–1934, 1940s

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: W. L. Bryant. 1934. New fishes from the Triassic of Pennsylvania. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 73(5):319-326 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99375: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.11.2010, edited by Matthew Oreska and Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gnathostomata
 Coelacanthini -
"Coelacanthus newarki n. sp." = Osteopleurus newarki
"Coelacanthus newarki n. sp." = Osteopleurus newarki Bryant 1934
PU-13695; ANSP Bock 22–28
Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Dipluridae
Diplurus longicaudatus1 Newberry 1878 coelacanth
Reptilia
 Diapsida -
Gwyneddosaurus erici n. gen. n. sp.1
Gwyneddosaurus erici n. gen. n. sp.1 Bock 1945 archosauromorph
ANSP 15072; May represent the same taxon as Tanytrachelos
Osteichthyes
 Osteolepiformes - Megalichthyidae
Rabdiolepis striata n. sp.2 Bock 1959 lobe-finned fish
ANSP Bock 42
Rabdiolepis gwyneddensis n. sp.2 Bock 1959 lobe-finned fish
ANSP Bock 31
Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Semionotus howelli n. sp.2 Bock 1959
ANSP 15649 (Bock 951)
Semionotus ovatus2 Redfield 1841
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Turseodus sp.3 Leidy 1857
Am 1033/1
 Palaeonisciformes - Redfieldiidae
"Catopterus obrai n. sp." = Redfieldius2, "Catopterus redfieldi" = Redfieldius redfieldi1
"Catopterus obrai n. sp." = Redfieldius2
ANSP Bock 851
"Catopterus redfieldi" = Redfieldius redfieldi1 Egerton 1847
 Actinopterygii - Turseoidae
Gwyneddichtis major2 Bock 1959 ray-finned fish
Gwyneddichtis minor n. sp.2 Bock 1959 ray-finned fish
ANSP Bock 524, 555
Gwyneddichtis gwyneddensis n. sp.2 Bock 1959 ray-finned fish
ANSP Bock 701, 723
Chondrichthyes
 Ctenacanthiformes -
Carinacanthus jepseni n. gen. n. sp.
Carinacanthus jepseni n. gen. n. sp. Bryant 1934 elasmobranch
PU-13739
unclassified
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Plantae indet.1 Haeckel 1866