Exeter Golf Course Estates tracksite: Rhaetian, Pennsylvania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Rhynchosauroides sp.
Maidwell 1911
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Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Eubrontes giganteus
(Hitchcock 1836)
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Olsen 2005 | ||||||
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Grallator sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Reptilia
- Batrachopodidae
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Batrachopus sp.
Hitchcock 1845
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Pennsylvania | County: | Berks |
| Coordinates: | 40.3° North, 75.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.0° North, 21.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 90 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Triassic |
| Stage: | Rhaetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Rhaetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 208.50000 - 201.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Chatham | Formation: | Passaic | Member: | TT/Pine Ridge |
| Local section: | Jacksonwald | Local bed: | 2350 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: early Rhaetian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | brown,red siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "brown and reddish-brown siltstone" | |
| Environment: | lacustrine indet. |
| Geology comments: "mudflat environment exposed by receding lake waters" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Exeter Village | ||
| Database number: | 62768 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-07-27 14:17:10 | Last modified: | 2023-06-15 11:02:58 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-07-27 14:17:10 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 28162. | ETE | S. M. Silvestri and M. J. Szajna. 1993. Biostratigraphy of vertebrate footprints in the Late Triassic section of the Newark Basin, Pennsylvania: reassessment of stratigraphic ranges. In S. G. Lucas and M. Morales (eds.), The Nonmarine Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 3:439-445 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 18115 | ETE | P. E. Olsen. 2005. Field Guide for Non-marine Boundary Events in the Newark Basin (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut), Eastern United States and their Litho-, Chrono- and Biostratigraphic Context. Guidebooks for Field Workshops of IGCP 458 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] |
| 18106 | ETE | M. J. Szajna and B. W. Hartline. 2003. A new vertebrate footprint locality from the Late Triassic Passaic Formation near Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. In P. M. LeTourneau & P. E. Olsen (ed.), The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America. Volume 2. Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Paleontology 264-272 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 85047 | D. B. Weishampel and L. Young. 1996. Dinosaurs of the East Coast xiii-275 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |