Where: Lehigh County, Pennsylvania (40.5° N, 75.5° W: paleocoordinates 15.0° N, 20.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Passaic Formation (Chatham Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• lower Passaic Formation according to Olsen (1988: Paleoecology and Paleoenvironments of the Continental Early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup of Eastern North America: In ed. W. Manspeizer, Triassic-Jurassic Rifting and the opening of the Atlantic Ocean, Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 185-230.)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; calcareous conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Y. Shelley, I. Lea in 1847
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: I. Lea. 1851. Remarks on the bones of a fossil reptilian quadruped. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 5:171-172 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 107423: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 07.04.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Clepsysaurus pennsylvanicus n. gen. n. sp.
Clepsysaurus pennsylvanicus n. gen. n. sp. Lea 1851 archosaur ANSP 9526, 9555-71, 9594, 9595, 15529, teeth and isolated postcrania
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