Schoffer's Creek tracksite: Norian, Pennsylvania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858
Reptilia
Rhynchosauroides sp. Maidwell 1911
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Pennsylvania County:Berks
Coordinates: 40.3° North, 75.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.8° North, 20.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Norian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Norian
Age range of interval:227.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chatham Formation:Passaic
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:84117
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-09-17 14:34:43 Last modified:2015-06-01 12:55:41
Access level:the public Released:2008-09-17 14:34:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
28162.ETE S. M. Silvestri and M. J. Szajna. 1993. Biostratigraphy of vertebrate footprints in the Late Triassic section of the Newark Basin, Pennsylvania: reassessment of stratigraphic ranges. In S. G. Lucas and M. Morales (eds.), The Nonmarine Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 3:439-445 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]