Where: Chatham County, North Carolina (35.6° N, 79.3° W: paleocoordinates 9.8° N, 23.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cumnock Formation (Chatham Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• "Conewagian LVF", previously considered late Carnian in age but redated as early Norian (Sues & Fraser 2010. Triassic Life on Land)
•Sanford subbasin of the Richmond Basin
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E. Emmons
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: E. Emmons. 1856. Geological Report of the Midland Counties of North Carolina xx-351 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 99429: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 11.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dictyocephalus elegans n. gen. n. sp.2
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| Reptilia | |
Rutiodon carolinensis n. gen. n. sp.
Rutiodon carolinensis n. gen. n. sp. Emmons 1856 archosaur Williams College unnumbered (neotype), skull. Five teeth and fragmentary postcrania (syntypes), now USNM 214513
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