Where: Pennsylvania (40.3° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 14.9° N, 20.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tumbling Falls Member (Lockatong Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• The locality is in the informal "A2" Lockatong lithofacies of Willard et al. (1959). Olsen et al. (1996) formalized the stratigraphic nomenclature of the Lockatong Formation. This formal revision places the "A2" and the overlying "double red" lithofacies of Willard et al. (1959) into the formal Tumbling Falls Member. The Lockatong Formation was originally assigned a Carnian age based on palynological data (Cornet, 1977, 1993), but more recently there has been the recognition of a long Norian stage (18-20 Ma in duration) based on detailed magnetostratigraphic analysis (Olsen et al., 2010). The long stage duration places the Norian boundary below the Stockton–Lockatong formational contact (Olsen et al., 2010). near the top of the Lockatong Formation (Olsen et al., 1996).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithified, red siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: State Museum of Pennsylvania, Invertebrate Paleontology Collection

Primary reference: E. L. Simpson, B. W. Hartline, M. J. Szajna, D. L. Fillmore, and E. A. Heness. 2013. An ensiferan (cricket) fossil from the Late Triassic Lockatong Formation, Newark Basin, Pennsylvania. The Triassic System. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 61:556-561 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 163460: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.10.2014

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