Where: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (40.2° N, 75.3° W: paleocoordinates 14.7° N, 20.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lockatong Formation (Chatham Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by I. Lea
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1866. [On the Mesozoic Red Sandstone of Pennsylvania]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 18:290 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 106284: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.03.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Pterodactylus longispinis n. sp." = Rhabdopelix longispinis
"Pterodactylus longispinis n. sp." = Rhabdopelix longispinis Cope 1866 archosauromorph May represent the same taxon as Tanytrachelos
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