Southbury O & G Industries Quarry (upper) (Jurassic of the United States)

Where: New Haven County, Connecticut (41.5° N, 73.2° W: paleocoordinates 22.4° N, 19.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cass Formation (Pomperaug Group), Early/Lower Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; medium-grained sandstone and siltstone

• "medium-grained, trough cross-bedded arkose capped by a siltstone parting surface that is extensively mud cracked and contains abundant, though poorly preserved reptile trackways"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by P. Huber & N. McDonald

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. Huber and P. M. LeTourneau. 2006. Revised lithostratigraphy of the Norian–Hettangian Pomperaug rift basin, western Connecticut: resolving a century-old conflict in geological interpretation. In J. D. Harris, S. G. Lucas, J. A. Spielmann, M. G. Lockley, A. R. C. Milner, J. I. Kirkland (eds.), The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:43-61 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192863: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.04.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod
Eubrontes sp. Hitchcock 1845 theropod
 Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae
Batrachopus sp. Hitchcock 1845 aetosaur
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
cf. Brachyphyllum sp. Brongniart 1828