Webster Brick Company quarry (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Rockingham County, North Carolina (36.5° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 1.5° N, 17.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pine Hall Formation (Dan River Group), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; black shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: P. J. W. Gore and P. E. Olsen. 1989. Stop 2.3: Webster Brick Company Quarry, Eden, NC. In P. E. Olsen, R. W. Schlische, & P. J. W. Gore (eds.), Tectonic, Depositional, and Paleoecological History of Early Mesozoic Rift Basins, Eastern North America. Gulf, North Carolina, USA to Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada. July 20–30, 1989. International Geological Congress Field Trip T-351 44-45 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 227824: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.11.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Redfieldiidae
Synorichthys sp. Schaeffer 1967
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Turseodus sp. Leidy 1857
Reptilia
 Phytosauria -
Phytosauria indet. archosaur
teeth
Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Dipluridae
Diplurus sp. Newberry 1878 coelacanth
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Darwinulidae
Darwinulidae indet. Brady and Norman 1889 ostracod
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca -
Conchostraca indet. Sars 1867 clam shrimp