Stevens locality (Jurassic of the United States)

Also known as Parmalee Brook

Where: Middlesex County, Connecticut (41.5° N, 72.7° W: paleocoordinates 22.2° N, 19.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: East Berlin Formation (Meriden Group), Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, silty, calcareous shale and gray, red shale

• "fissile to flaggy, dark gray, microlaminated, calcareous silty shale is exposed along with thicker beds of gray and red shale, siltstone, and sandstone."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected in 1890, 1976

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: B. Schaeffer and N. G. McDonald. 1978. Redfieldiid fishes from the Triassic-Liassic Newark Supergroup of eastern North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 159(4):129-174 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 224081: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.01.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Semionotus sp.
Semionotus sp. Agassiz 1832
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Redfieldiidae
Redfieldius sp.
Redfieldius sp. Hay 1899
Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Dipluridae
Diplurus sp.
Diplurus sp. Newberry 1878 coelacanth