Phoenixville Tunnel (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Chester County, Pennsylvania (40.1° N, 75.5° W: paleocoordinates 14.6° N, 20.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lockatong Formation (Chatham Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• From the Lower Lockatong Formation according to Olsen (1988). Two fossiliferous beds, about 500 ft apart.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; black, carbonaceous shale and massive, green, red claystone

• "massive, red-green argillites and thin, bituminous black shales"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1857; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: salvage,

Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1866. [A few observations on some of the extinct vertebrates of the Mesozoic Red Sandstone]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 18:249-250 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107421: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 07.04.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• No longer includes the type of Thecodontosaurus gibbidens, now thought to have come from Emigsville.
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unclassified
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Estheriidae indet.2
Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Dipluridae
Diplurus sp.2
Diplurus sp.2 Newberry 1878 coelacanth
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Mastodonsaurus durus n. sp.
Mastodonsaurus durus n. sp. Cope 1866 tetrapod
AMNH 3927, fragment of skull roof
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Redfieldiidae
Redfieldiidae indet.2
Redfieldiidae indet.2 Hutchinson 1973
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Turseodus acutus n. sp.1
Turseodus acutus n. sp.1 Leidy 1857
ANSP 14535, AMNH 8107
1Schaeffer 1952; 2Schaeffer and McDonald 1978