Dickinson's Quarry, South Hadley: Hettangian - Sinemurian, Massachusetts

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Moyenisauropodidae
Anomoepus isodactylus n. sp. Hitchcock 1889
Hitchcock 1889 1 specimen
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Ornithoidichnites gracillimus n. sp. Hitchcock 1844
Lull 1915
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Anomoepus cuneatus n. sp. Hitchcock 1889
Hitchcock 1889 1 specimen
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Anomoepus intermedius Hitchcock 1862
Lull 1915
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Anchisauripus tuberosus (Hitchcock 1836)
Lull 1915
recombined as Grallator tuberosus
Grallator gracilis (Hitchcock 1837)
Hitchcock and Grier 1927 1 specimen
synonym of Grallator tuberosus
Grallator tenuis Hitchcock 1858
Lull 1915
aff. Anchisauripus hitchcocki Lull 1904
Hitchcock and Grier 1927
synonym of Grallator tenuis
Grallator cursorius Hitchcock 1858
Lull 1915
Brontozoum giganteum (Hitchcock 1836)
recombined as Eubrontes giganteus
Eubrontes divaricatus (Hitchcock 1865)
Lull 1915
synonym of Eubrontes giganteus
Brontozoum isodactylum Hitchcock 1858
synonym of Eubrontes
Anchisauripus minusculus (Hitchcock 1837)
Lull 1915
recombined as Eubrontes minusculus
Brontozoum sillimanium (Hitchcock 1843)
recombined as Eubrontes sillimani
Ornithoidichnites cuneatus n. sp. (Hitchcock 1837)
synonym of Eubrontes sillimani
Reptilia - Otozoidae
Otozoum moodii Hitchcock 1847
Reptilia - Batrachopodidae
Batrachopus deweyi (Hitchcock 1843)
Lull 1915
Macropterna vulgaris Hitchcock 1858
synonym of Batrachopus deweyi
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Massachusetts County:Hampshire
Coordinates: 42.3° North, 72.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.0° North, 18.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:74 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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
Geological group:Agawam Formation:Portland
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "a hard sandstone"
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression,trace
Degree of concentration:-multiple events
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Lull 14
Database number:52995
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-08-30 12:19:45 Last modified:2020-02-14 16:14:56
Access level:the public Released:2005-08-30 12:19:45
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

30862ETE 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]
30910ETE C. H. Hitchcock. 1889. Recent progress in ichnology. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 24(8):117-127 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
64634 C. H. Hitchcock. 1898. Recent progress in ichnology. In B. K. Emerson (ed.), Geology of Old Hampshire County, Massachusetts Comprising Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden Counties. Monographs of the United States Geological Survey 29:400-406 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71713 C. H. Hitchcock and N. M. Grier. 1927. The Hitchcock Lecture upon ichnology, and the Dartmouth College ichnological collection. The American Midland Naturalist 10(7):161-197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14628ETE 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]
14321ETE 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]
18113ETE P. E. Olsen and E. C. Rainforth. 2003. The Early Jurassic ornithischian dinosaurian ichnogenus Anomoepus. In P. M. LeTourneau & P. E. Olsen (ed.), The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America, Volume 2: Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Paleontology 314-368 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]