Watkins Landing (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as Huguenot Springs

Where: Powhatan County, Virginia (37.6° N, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 2.5° N, 16.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• "Coal Measures" of the Richmond Basin

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the AMNH

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224083: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.01.2022

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Redfieldiidae
Dictyopyge macrurus Redfield 1841
AMNH 4877
Dictyopyge meekeri Schaeffer and McDonald 1978
AMNH 4876, 4884, 4922, 4927