Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.1° N, 64.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 6.4° 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"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: NSM: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax

Primary reference: H. -D. Sues, J. A. Hopson, and N. H. Shubin. 1992. Affinities of Scalenodontoides plemmyridon Hopson, 1984 (Synapsida: Cynodontia) from the Upper Triassic of Nova Scotia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12(2):168-171 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89088: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 04.05.2009

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