beach cove east of Noel Head ("Leptopleuron"): Carnian, Canada
collected by D. Baird & B. Cameron 1964

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Procolophonidae
Procolophonidae indet. Lydekker 1889
1 specimen
    = Leptopleuron sp. Owen 1851
Baird and Olsen 1983
NSM 996GF82.1, incomplete skull and associated postcranial bones
    = Scoloparia glyphanodon Sues and Baird 1998
Sues and Baird 1998
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Nova Scotia County:Hants County
Coordinates: 45.3° North, 63.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.7° North, 6.0° 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 - 228.00000 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
Associated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:D. Baird & B. Cameron Collection dates:19 July 1964
Metadata
Database number:89078
Authorizer:R. Butler, M. Carrano Enterer:R. Butler, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-05-04 05:20:54 Last modified:2017-07-19 13:20:29
Access level:the public Released:2009-05-04 05:20:54
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:

29894 D. Baird and P. E. Olsen. 1983. Late Triassic herpetofauna from the Wolfville Fm. of the Minas Basin (Fundy Basin) Nova Scotia, Can. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 15:122 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
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]