Carrs Brook (Triassic of Canada)

Also known as Lower Economy

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.4° N, 64.0° W: paleocoordinates 5.7° N, 2.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wolfville Formation (Chatham Group), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: P. E. Olsen. 1989. Stop 11.1: Carrs Brook near Lower Economy, NS. 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-351 149-150 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 227834: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.11.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Bivalvia
 Unionida - Unionidae
? Unionidae indet. Rafinesque 1820 freshwater mussel
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Mastodonsauridae
"cf. Capitosauridae indet." = Mastodonsauridae
"cf. Capitosauridae indet." = Mastodonsauridae Lydekker 1885 tetrapod
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Traversodontidae
aff. Exaeretodon sp. Cabrera 1943 cynodont
 Dicynodontia -
Dicynodontia indet. Owen 1859 dicynodont
Reptilia
 Parareptilia - Procolophonidae
cf. Sclerosaurus sp. von Meyer 1857 parareptile
Anomoiodon sp. Huene 1939 parareptile
 Diapsida - Tanystropheidae
Tanystropheus sp. von Meyer 1852 archosauromorph
 Diapsida - Trilophosauridae
Trilophosauridae indet. Gregory 1945 archosauromorph
 Diapsida - Proterosuchidae
cf. Proterosuchidae indet. Broom 1906 archosauromorph
 Loricata - Rauisuchidae
 Pseudosuchia - Aetosauridae
? Aetosauridae indet. Baur 1887 archosaur
 Ichnofossils -
Scoyenia sp. White 1929