Boscabel Quarry (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as Manakin, Boscobel, Luck Stone

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: Vinita Member (Tuckahoe Formation), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• "Coal Measures" of the Richmond Basin

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; black, gray siltstone

• "gray to black mnicrolaminated siltstones"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by P. Olsen & N. McDonald; reposited in the AMNH, YPM

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 224084: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.01.2022

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Archosauria indet.
Archosauria indet.
recurved conical teeth
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca - Cyzicidae
Cyzicus sp.
Cyzicus sp. Audouin 1837 clam shrimp
 Diplostraca - Limnadiidae
Palaeolimnadia sp.
Palaeolimnadia sp. Raymond 1946 clam shrimp
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Redfieldiidae
Cionichthys sp., Dictyopyge macrurus, Dictyopyge meekeri n. sp.
Cionichthys sp. Schaeffer 1967
YPM 792
Dictyopyge macrurus Redfield 1841
AMNH 1541, 4764, 4769; YPM 7919
Dictyopyge meekeri n. sp. Schaeffer and McDonald 1978
AMNH 47624733, AMNH 4735, AMNH 4737, AMNH 4738, AMNH 4740, AMNH 4741, AMNH 4743, AMNH 4756, AMNH 4760, AMNH 4733, 4735, 4737, 4738, 4740, 4741, 4743, 4756, 4760, 4762, 5244; YPM 7936