Titian's Piazza, Hadley tracksite: Hettangian, Massachusetts

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Batrachopodidae
Apatichnus bellus Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1865 1 specimen
recombined as Batrachopus bellus
Reptilia - Moyenisauropodidae
Apatichnus ? circumagens Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1865 1 specimen
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Brontozoum divaricatum Hitchcock 1865
Hitchcock 1865 1 specimen
synonym of Eubrontes giganteus
Grallator cuneatus Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1865 1 specimen
synonym of Grallator tenuis
Brontozoum validum Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1858 15 specimens
synonym of Grallator tuberosus
Brontozoum loxonyx Hitchcock 1848
synonym of Grallator tuberosus
Brontozoum exsertum Hitchcock 1858
Hitchcock 1865 1 specimen
synonym of Grallator tuberosus
"probably"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Massachusetts County:Hampshire
Coordinates: 42.3° North, 72.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.0° North, 19.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Hettangian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Hettangian
Age range of interval:201.40000 - 199.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Meriden Formation:East Berlin
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "beaneath the trap"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse,micaceous,gray sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: gray micaceous sandstone
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Mt. Holyoke, Hoccanum, Hockanum, Lull 12
Database number:53030
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-09-01 13:48:41 Last modified:2009-10-15 18:13:41
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-01 13:48:41
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:

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]
29531ETE 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]
30860ETE 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]
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]