Wheatley's Copper Mines, Emigsville (AMNH) (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as Emiggsville

Where: York County, Pennsylvania (40.0° N, 76.7° W: paleocoordinates 14.4° N, 21.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: New Oxford Formation (Chatham Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Cope, Wheatley; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1878. On some Saurians found in the Triassic of Pennsylvania, by C. M. Wheatley. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17(100):231-232 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59371: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 29.03.2006, edited by Richard Butler

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Taxonomic list

• Huene (1921) incorrectly identified several of the remains from Emigsville as coming from the Phoenixville Tunnel locality.
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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Metoposauridae indet.1
Metoposauridae indet.1 Watson 1919 tetrapod
AMNH 1850, 1863, clavicle and interclavicle
Reptilia
 Phytosauria -
"Suchoprion aulacodus" = Palaeoctonus aulacodus2, Palaeoctonus appalachianus2, Suchoprion cyphodon2
"Suchoprion aulacodus" = Palaeoctonus aulacodus2 Cope 1877 archosaur
Palaeoctonus appalachianus2 Cope 1877 archosaur
Suchoprion cyphodon2 Cope 1877 archosaur
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
"Belodon caroliniensis" = Rutiodon carolinensis2
"Belodon caroliniensis" = Rutiodon carolinensis2 Emmons 1856 archosaur
 Phytosauria -
Clepsysaurus veatleianus2, "Belodon priscus" = Compsosaurus priscus2, Palaeosaurus fraserianus n. sp.
Clepsysaurus veatleianus2 Cope 1877 archosaur
"Belodon priscus" = Compsosaurus priscus2 Leidy 1856 archosaur
Palaeosaurus fraserianus n. sp. Cope 1878 archosaur
 Pseudosuchia -
Thecodontosaurus gibbidens n. sp.
Thecodontosaurus gibbidens n. sp. Cope 1878 aetosaur
AMNH 2339
1Baird 1986; 2Lyman 1894