Virginia Route 683 tracksite (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Pittsylvania County, Virginia (36.9° N, 79.2° W: paleocoordinates 1.9° N, 17.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dry Fork Formation (Dan River Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Silty Facies of this formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, red siltstone and brown, red sandstone

• "well-laminated maroon, brown and brown-green siltstones and sandstones. Cross-bedding, ripple marks, and raindrop impressions are common. Worm-trails occur throughout..."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected by B. Hathaway in 1978

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: N. C. Fraser and P. E. Olsen. 1996. A new dinosauromorph ichnogenus from the Triassic of Virginia. Jeffersoniana: Contributions from the Virginia Museum of Natural History 7:1-17 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 219790: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.04.2021

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Banisterobates boisseaui n. gen. n. sp., Grallator sp.
Banisterobates boisseaui n. gen. n. sp. Fraser and Olsen 1996 theropod
VMNH 202
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod