Also known as Arctotraversodon holotype site, Burtncoat shore

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.3° N, 63.8° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 6.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wolfville Formation (Chatham Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• "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"

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Baird; reposited in the YPM

• NSM: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89080: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 04.05.2009, edited by Matthew Carrano

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