north shore, Minas Basin tracksite (Jurassic of Canada)

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; quartzose, red wackestone

• "red quartz wackes and siltstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by E. George, R. Grantham in 1985

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. G. Grantham. 1986. Dinosaur tracks and mega-flutes in the Jurassic of Nova Scotia. In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, Abstracts with Program 14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146189: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Otozoidae
Otozoum sp. Hitchcock 1847 prosauropod
NSM