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
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 | |
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod
Eubrontes sp. Hitchcock 1845 theropod | |
Batrachopus sp. Hitchcock 1845 aetosaur | |
Equisetopsida | |
cf. Brachyphyllum sp. Brongniart 1828 |