Boot Island shore: Carnian, Canada
collected by W. F. Take, D. Baird, L. Duncanson 1959

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Procolophonidae
Procolophonidae indet. Lydekker 1889
1 individual
    = Scoloparia glyphanodon n. gen., n. sp. Sues and Baird 1998
Sues and Baird 1998
NSM 996GF83.1 (holotype), incomplete skull. A large number of other specimens from the Wolfville Formation have also been referred to this taxon; however, locality data is missing at present
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Nova Scotia County:Kings
Coordinates: 45.1° North, 64.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.5° North, 6.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Carnian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 3
Key time interval:Carnian
Age range of interval:237.00000 - 227.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chatham Formation:Wolfville
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "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"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:W. F. Take, D. Baird, L. Duncanson Collection dates:16 June 1959
Collection method comments: NSM: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax
Metadata
Also known as:Scoloparia holotype site, , Boot Island reef
Database number:80093
Authorizer:J. Mueller, M. Carrano Enterer:J. Dummasch, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-04-03 01:55:19 Last modified:2017-07-19 13:19:16
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-04-03 01:55:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
57902. 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]

Secondary references:

26919 H.-D. Sues and D. Baird. 1998. Procolophonidae (Reptilia: Parareptilia) from the Upper Triassic Wolfville Formation of Nova Scotia, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3):525-532 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch/J. Alroy]