Lowe's Grove, State Highway 54 (Triassic of the United States)
Where: North Carolina (35.9° N, 79.1° W: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 19.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Triassic (251.9 - 201.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, brown, white, yellow shale and fine-grained, red, carbonaceous shale
• Fossils found in fine, white to brown, yellow-mottled, slightly metamorphosed shale. One quarter of a mile east similar fossils were found in a fine, dark-red, carbonaceous shale.
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: G. Murray. 1938. New fossil localities in the Durham Triassic Basin. Science 87(2261):390-390 [M. Uhen/J. David/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 151884: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Jenna David on 15.10.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Branchiopoda | |
"Estheria ovata" = Lioestheria ovata
"Estheria ovata" = Lioestheria ovata Lea 1856 clam shrimp | |
| Ostracoda | |
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Candona rogersii ostracod | |