USNM locality 39981 (Triassic of the United States)

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
 Eosuchia -
Micromenodon pitti n. gen. n. sp.
Micromenodon pitti n. gen. n. sp. Sues and Schoch 2021 lepidosaur
USNM PAL 770096