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
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 | |
"Coelacanthus newarki n. sp." = Osteopleurus newarki
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Coelacanthimorpha | |
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Reptilia | |
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
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Osteichthyes | |
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Actinopteri | |
Semionotus ovatus2 Redfield 1841 | |
Osteichthyes | |
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"Catopterus redfieldi" = Redfieldius redfieldi1 Egerton 1847 | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
Carinacanthus jepseni n. gen. n. sp.
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unclassified | |
Plantae indet.1 Haeckel 1866 |