Where: England, United Kingdom (53.2° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 15.7° N, 12.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mercia Mudstone Group, Early/Lower Triassic (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)
• "rather higher in the Keuper than this at Storeton and Runcorn"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collected by P. G. Egerton in 1824
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: H. Girard. 1846. Über die Fährten vorweltlicher Thiere im Sandstein, insbesondere von Chirotherium [On the tracks of prehistoric animals in sandstone, especially Chirotherium]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1846:1-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 164932: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.01.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Chirotherium herculis n. sp.
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