Ketch's Mills, East Windsor: Hettangian - Sinemurian, Connecticut
collected by S. Ellsworth Jr. & N. Smith 1818
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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? Homo sapiens
Linnaeus 1758
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1 individual | |||||||||
YPM 2125 | ||||||||||
= Vertebrata indet.
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Hall 1821 | |||||||||
= Sauria indet.
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Wyman 1855 | |||||||||
= Crocodylia indet.
Owen 1842
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Hitchcock 1858 | |||||||||
YPM 2125 | ||||||||||
= Anchisaurus colurus
Marsh 1891
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Lull 1912 | |||||||||
= Saurischia indet.
Seeley 1888
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Delair and Sarjeant 1975 | |||||||||
= Prosauropoda indet.
Huene 1920
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Galton 1976 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Connecticut | County: | Hartford |
Coordinates: | 41.9° North, 72.6° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 23.6° North, 18.6° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Altitude: | 35 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 1 | ||
Key time interval: | Hettangian - Sinemurian | ||
Age range of interval: | 201.40000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | fine,red sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Associated major elements: | some |
Fragmentation: | extreme |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | salvage,mechanical,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | YPM | ||
Collectors: | S. Ellsworth Jr. & N. Smith | Collection dates: | 1818 |
Collection method comments: discovered while blasting for well, collected by Solomon Ellsworth, Jr. |
Metadata
Database number: | 47200 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Carrano, M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-02-18 08:23:01 | Last modified: | 2023-06-14 15:43:48 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-02-18 08:23:01 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
62301. | N. Smith. 1820. Fossil bones found in red sandstone. The American Journal of Science and Arts 2:146-147 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
37614 | J. B. Delair and W. A. S. Sarjeant. 1975. The Earliest Discoveries of Dinosaurs. The American Journal of Science 66(1):4-25 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
27912 | ETE | J. B. Delair and W. A. S. Sarjeant. 2002. The earliest discoveries of dinosaurs: the records re-examined. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 113:185-197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
12624 | ETE | P. M. Galton. 1976. Prosauropod dinosaurs (Reptilia: Saurischia) of North America. Postilla 169:1-98 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
55382 | J. Hall. 1821. Fossil bones found in East-Windsor, Connecticut. The American Journal of Science and Arts 3:247 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
69420 | E. Hitchcock. 1841. Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts xii-831 [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] |
14669 | ETE | R. S. Lull. 1912. The life of the Connecticut Trias. The American Journal of Science, series 4 33:397-422 [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] |
17863 | ETE | V. L. Santucci. 1998. Early discoveries of dinosaurs from North America and the significance of the Springfield Armory dinosaur site. In V. L. Santucci & L. McClelland (eds.), National Park Service Geologic Resources Division Technical Report NPS/NRGRD/GRDTR-98/01. National Park Service Paleontological Research Volume 3:152-154 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
78202 | C. M. Sternberg. 1963. Early discoveries of dinosaurs. National Museum of Canada Natural History Papers 21:1-4 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
81482 | J. S. Tweet and V. L. Santucci. 2011. Anchisaurus from Springfield Armory. In T. Olstad & A. K. Aase (ed.), Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Fossil Resources, Kemmerer, WY. Brigham Young University Geology Studies 49(A):75-82 [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] | |
36142 | ETE | J. Wyman. 1855. Notice of fossil bones from the Red Sandstone of the Connecticut River Valley. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 2 20:394-397 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
80941 | A. M. Yates. 2010. A revision of the problematic sauropodomorph dinosaurs from Manchester, Connecticut and the status of Anchisaurus Marsh. Palaeontology 53(4):739-752 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |