Rattlesnake Hill: Hettangian, Connecticut
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Palaeonisciformes
- Redfieldiidae
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Redfieldiidae indet.
Hutchinson 1973
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Connecticut | County: | New Haven |
| Coordinates: | 41.5° North, 73.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 22.1° North, 19.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early Jurassic |
| Stage: | Hettangian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Hettangian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 201.4 - 199.5 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | massive,gray,white "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "massive, gray-white limestone" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Red Spring | ||
| Database number: | 224090 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2022-01-13 12:41:56 | Last modified: | 2022-01-13 12:41:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2022-01-13 12:41:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 79067. | B. Schaeffer and N. G. McDonald. 1978. Redfieldiid fishes from the Triassic-Liassic Newark Supergroup of eastern North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 159(4):129-174 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |