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

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