Also known as York Springs, Gettysburg, South Confederate Avenue bridge

Where: Adams County, Pennsylvania (40.0° N, 77.1° W: paleocoordinates 14.4° N, 21.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Heidlersburg Member (Gettysburg Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Approx. 6000 m above the base of the New Oxford Formation, 3900 m below the base of the Jurassic Aspers Basalt and within 450 m of the base of the Heidlersburg Member.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green siltstone and gray, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by E. R. Haile in 1937; reposited in the CM

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• "These tracks were discovered by an engineer employed by the Bureau of Public Roads, Mr. Elmer R. Haile, Jr., while he was supervising excavations."

Primary reference: A. Avinoff. 1937. Vertebrate Paleontology. Fortieth Annual Report of the Carnegie Museum for the Year Ended December 31, 1937 31-34 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55414: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 20.10.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

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