Rattlesnake Hill (Jurassic of the United States)

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

• "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

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Redfieldiidae
Redfieldiidae indet. Hutchinson 1973