Also known as Micromenodon-type locality
Where: Chesterfield County, Virginia (37.5° N, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 6.6° N, 18.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tomahawk Creek Member (Vinita Formation), Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; silty, calcareous mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ), chemical, mechanical, sieve,
Primary reference: H.-D. Sues and R. R. Schoch. 2021. A new early-diverging sphenodontian (Lepidosauria, Rhynchocephalia) from the Upper Triassic of Virginia, U.S.A. Journal of Paleontology 95(2):344-350 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 220419: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 30.05.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Micromenodon pitti n. gen. n. sp.
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