Also known as Red Spring
Where: New Haven County, Connecticut (41.5° N, 73.2° W: paleocoordinates 22.1° N, 19.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Talcott Formation (Meriden Group), Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)
• uppermost sedimentary unit of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; massive, gray, white limestone
Size class: macrofossils
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 224090: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.01.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Redfieldiidae indet. Hutchinson 1973 |