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 | |
? Unionidae indet. Rafinesque 1820 freshwater mussel | |
Amphibia | |
"cf. Capitosauridae indet." = Mastodonsauridae
"cf. Capitosauridae indet." = Mastodonsauridae Lydekker 1885 tetrapod | |
Osteichthyes | |
aff. Exaeretodon sp. Cabrera 1943 cynodont | |
Dicynodontia indet. Owen 1859 dicynodont | |
Reptilia | |
cf. Sclerosaurus sp. von Meyer 1857 parareptile
Anomoiodon sp. Huene 1939 parareptile | |
Tanystropheus sp. von Meyer 1852 archosauromorph | |
Trilophosauridae indet. Gregory 1945 archosauromorph | |
cf. Proterosuchidae indet. Broom 1906 archosauromorph | |
Rauisuchidae indet. rauisuchid | |
? Aetosauridae indet. Baur 1887 archosaur | |
Scoyenia sp. White 1929 |