Titian's Piazza, Hadley tracksite: Hettangian, Massachusetts
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Brontozoum divaricatum
Hitchcock 1865
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Eubrontes giganteus | ||||||||||
Grallator cuneatus
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Grallator tenuis | ||||||||||
Brontozoum loxonyx
Hitchcock 1848
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synonym of Grallator tuberosus | ||||||||||
Brontozoum exsertum
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Grallator tuberosus | ||||||||||
"probably" | ||||||||||
Brontozoum validum
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1858 | 15 specimens | ||||||||
synonym of Grallator tuberosus | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Moyenisauropodidae
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Apatichnus ? circumagens
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Anomoepus scambus | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Batrachopodidae
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Apatichnus bellus
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Batrachopus bellus | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Massachusetts | County: | Hampshire |
Coordinates: | 42.3° North, 72.6° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 23.0° North, 19.6° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
Stage: | Hettangian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 1 |
Key time interval: | Hettangian | ||
Age range of interval: | 201.40000 - 199.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Meriden | Formation: | East Berlin | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "beaneath the trap" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | coarse,micaceous,gray sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: gray micaceous sandstone | |
Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | cast,mold/impression,trace |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection,observed (not collected) |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Mt. Holyoke, Hoccanum, Hockanum, Lull 12 | ||
Database number: | 53030 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-09-01 13:48:41 | Last modified: | 2009-10-15 18:13:41 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-09-01 13:48:41 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
30909. | E. Hitchcock. 1848. An attempt to discriminate and describe the animals that made the fossil footmarks of the United States, and especially of New England. Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, new series 3:129-256 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
30862 | ETE | C. H. Hitchcock. 1865. Appendix [B]. Descriptive catalogue of the specimens in the Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet of Amherst College. In C. H. Hitchcock (ed.), Supplement to the Ichnology of New England. A Report to the Government of Massachusetts in 1863 43-96 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
29531 | ETE | E. Hitchcock. 1858. Ichnology of New England. A Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, Especially its Fossil Footmarks, Made to the Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts xii-214 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
30860 | ETE | E. Hitchcock. 1865. Supplement to the ichnology of New England. In C. H. Hitchcock (ed.), Supplement to the Ichnology of New England. A Report to the Government of Massachusetts in 1863 1-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
14628 | ETE | R. S. Lull. 1915. Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley. State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin 24:1-285 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
14321 | ETE | R. S. Lull. 1953. Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley (revised). State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin 81:1-336 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |