Mapperley Park tracksite (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Sherwood suburb

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.0° N, 1.2° W: paleocoordinates 16.0° N, 11.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Keuper Waterstones Formation (Mercia Mudstone Group), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• from the "Keuper Waterstones", lower Ladinian - now lower Merica Mudstone Group (Anisian)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by H. H. Swinnerton in 1910

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: H. H. Swinnerton. 1910. Organic remains in the Trias of Nottingham. Geological Magazine, decade 5 7(5):229 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83053: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.08.2008, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Cotylosauria -
Varanopus aff. curvidactylus2 Moodie 1929 tetrapod
PC 3365
Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Chirotheriidae indet.1 Abel 1935 archosaur
PC 3317
Swinnertonichnus mapperleyensis n. gen. n. sp.2 Sarjeant 1967 archosaur
PC 3315
Chirotherium sp.1 Kaup 1835 archosaur
PC 3316
"? Otozoum swinnertoni n. sp." = Chirotherium swinnertoni3 Sarjeant 1970 archosaur
"type A" prints; PC 4238
Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda -
"Microsauropus aff. acutipes" = Erpetopus willistoni2
"Microsauropus aff. acutipes" = Erpetopus willistoni2 Moodie 1929 tetrapod
PC 3365