Scott & Sons Quarry tracksite, Goldsboro (USNM): Norian, Pennsylvania
collected by Wanner 1887

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
? Rhynchosauroides sp. Maidwell 1911
Olsen and Baird 1986
Reptilia - Batrachopodidae
Anisichnus gracilis (Hitchcock 1845)
Hitchcock 1889
original and current combination Batrachopus gracilis
Reptilia - Parasuchidae
? Apatopus sp. Baird 1957
Olsen and Baird 1986
Reptilia - Moyenisauropodidae
Anomoepus gracillimus (Hitchcock 1844)
Hitchcock 1889
synonym of Anomoepus scambus
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Atreipus milfordensis (Bock 1952)
Baird 1957
synonym of Grallator tuberosus
USNM (lost)
Brontozoum sillimanium (Hitchcock 1843)
Hitchcock 1889
recombined as Eubrontes sillimani
unclassified
Scoyenia sp. White 1929
Olsen and Baird 1986
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Pennsylvania County:York
Coordinates: 40.2° North, 76.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.6° North, 21.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:93 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Norian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Norian
Age range of interval:228.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chatham Formation:Gettysburg
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 4120 m above the base of the New Oxford Formation and 2850 m below the Heidlersbury Member or the Gettysburg Formation; 3 horizons within a 37-inch thickness; Gettysburg section
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Secondary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: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:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:Wanner Collection dates:1887
Metadata
Database number:55413
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-10-20 11:32:23 Last modified:2023-06-14 15:47:47
Access level:the public Released:2005-10-20 11:32:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15285.ETE A. Wanner. 1889. The discovery of fossil tracks, algae, etc., in the Triassic of York county, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Geological Survey Annual Report 1887:21-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

63742 Anonymous. 1937. Quarry gives up dinosaur foot prints after millions of years. Pennsylvania Department of Internal Affairs Monthly Bulletin 4(3):12-15 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12444ETE D. Baird. 1957. Triassic reptile footprint faunules from Milford, New Jersey. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 117(5):449-520 [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]
53039 B. S. Lyman. 1895. Report on the New Red in Bucks and Montgomery counties. Pennsylvania State Geological Summary Final Report 3(2):2589-2638 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14907ETE P. E. Olsen and D. Baird. 1986. The ichnogenus Atreipus and its significance for Triassic biostratigraphy. In: K. Padian (ed.), The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Changes Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 61-87 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]
35183 V. L. Santucci and A. P. Hunt. 1995. Late Triassic Dinosaur Tracks Reinterpreted at Gettysburg National Military Park. Park Science 15(2):9 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska]
85047 D. B. Weishampel and L. Young. 1996. Dinosaurs of the East Coast xiii-275 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]