Also known as Turner's Falls
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; red shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace
Collected by D. Marsh in 1840s, 1855; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), peel or thin section,
Primary reference: D. Marsh. 1848. Foosil footprints. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 2 6:272-274 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 53032: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.09.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Grallator tenuis Hitchcock 1858 theropod | |
"Apatichnus circumagens" = Anomoepus scambus
"Apatichnus circumagens" = Anomoepus scambus Hitchcock 1848 ornithopod |