stream near Pliny Moody's, tracksite: Hettangian - Sinemurian, Massachusetts
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Grallator tenuis
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Grallator formosus
Hitchcock 1858
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | |||||
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= ? Grallator formosus
Hitchcock 1858
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Lull 1915 | ||||||
| synonym of Grallator tenuis | |||||||
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Brontozoum sillimanium
(Hitchcock 1843)
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Hitchcock 1865 | 4 specimens | |||||
| recombined as Eubrontes sillimani | |||||||
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Reptilia
- Batrachopodidae
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Anisopus sp.
Hitchcock 1848
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Hitchcock 1865 | 1 specimen | |||||
| synonym of Batrachopus | |||||||
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? Batrachopus deweyi
(Hitchcock 1843)
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Lull 1915 | ||||||
| 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: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 74 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
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 |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | coarse,gray sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| 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: | South Hadley, Lull 13 | ||
| Database number: | 52999 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-08-30 13:02:04 | Last modified: | 2009-10-15 18:08:50 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-30 13:02:04 |
| 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] |
| 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] |