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 | |
Synorichthys sp. Schaeffer 1967 | |
Turseodus sp. Leidy 1857 | |
Reptilia | |
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Coelacanthimorpha | |
Diplurus sp. Newberry 1878 coelacanth | |
Ostracoda | |
Darwinulidae indet. Brady and Norman 1889 ostracod | |
Branchiopoda | |
Conchostraca indet. Sars 1867 clam shrimp |