Also known as Lull 16, Northampton
Where: Hampden County, Massachusetts (42.3° N, 72.6° W: paleocoordinates 23.0° N, 19.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: East Berlin Formation (Meriden Group), Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; coarse-grained, micaceous, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace
Collected by D. Marsh in 1835-1854
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: E. Hitchcock. 1858. Ichnology of New England. A Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, Especially its Fossil Footmarks, Made to the Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts xii-214 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 53024: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.09.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Grallator formosus" = Grallator tenuis3, "Grallator cuneatus" = Grallator tenuis1, "Brontozoum exsertum n. sp." = Grallator tuberosus1, "Brontozoum validum" = Grallator tuberosus1, "Brontozoum sillimanium" = Eubrontes sillimani1, "Anchisauripus minusculus" = Eubrontes minusculus2, "Brontozoum giganteum n. sp." = Eubrontes giganteus1, "Brontozoum approximatum" = Eubrontes giganteus1
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Polypodiopsida | |
Clathropteris sp.1 Brongniart 1828 |