Coopersburg tracksite (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Lehigh County, Pennsylvania (40.5° N, 75.4° W: paleocoordinates 14.7° N, 20.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red shale

• "red shale"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by J. Turner, J. D. Ryan, P. Kranz, T. Lipka, R. Weems in 1978, 1989, 1992

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• site vandalized in 1989 and tracks stolen

Primary reference: D. B. Weishampel and L. Young. 1996. Dinosaurs of the East Coast xiii-275 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 230404: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.06.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Chirotherium sp. Kaup 1835 archosaur
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Rutiodon sp. Emmons 1856 archosaur
tracks
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"Rhynchosauroides brunswickii" = Kintneria brunswickii
"Rhynchosauroides brunswickii" = Kintneria brunswickii Ryan and Willard 1947 reptile