Also known as Lull 7
Where: Franklin County, Massachusetts (42.6° N, 72.6° W: paleocoordinates 24.3° N, 18.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Portland Formation (Agawam Group), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; micaceous, gray, red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace
Collected by Hitchcock in the 1830s
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), peel or thin section,
Primary reference: E. Hitchcock. 1836. Ornithichnology - description of the foot marks of birds, (Ornithichnites) on new Red Sandstone in Massachusetts. The American Journal of Science and Arts 29(2):307-340 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 52990: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.08.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Ornithopus adamsanus n. sp.1, "Tridentipes ingens" = Steropoides ingens2, "Steropezoum elegans" = Steropoides diversus1
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