McKay Head tracksite (Jurassic of Canada)

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.4° N, 64.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° N, 13.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: McCoy Brook Formation (Meriden Group), Early/Lower Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by P. Olsen & D. Simanek in 1978; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. E. Olsen. 1981. Comment on ‘Eolian dune field of Late Triassic age, Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia’. Geology 9(12):557-559 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 138977: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Moyenisauropodidae
Anomoepus scambus2 Hitchcock 1848 ornithopod
"spp."
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
"Anchisauripus (Grallator) hitchcocki" = Grallator tenuis, Grallator cursorius, "Eubrontes (Grallator) giganteus" = Eubrontes giganteus, "Anchisauripus (Grallator) sillimani" = Eubrontes sillimani
"Anchisauripus (Grallator) hitchcocki" = Grallator tenuis Hitchcock 1858 theropod
Grallator cursorius Hitchcock 1858 theropod
"Eubrontes (Grallator) giganteus" = Eubrontes giganteus Hitchcock 1836 theropod
"Anchisauripus (Grallator) sillimani" = Eubrontes sillimani Hitchcock 1843 theropod
YPM 8668
 Saurischia - Otozoidae
Otozoum moodii1 Hitchcock 1847 prosauropod
 Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae
Batrachopus spp. Hitchcock 1845 aetosaur
YPM 8666, 8667