Enfield Bridge quarry, Suffield: Hettangian, Connecticut

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Ornithoidichnites giganteus (Hitchcock 1836)
recombined as Eubrontes giganteus
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Connecticut County:Hartford
Coordinates: 42.0° North, 72.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.7° North, 19.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Lull 29
Database number:91576
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-10-02 11:32:44 Last modified:2019-07-15 16:16:10
Access level:the public Released:2009-10-02 11:32:44
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
69420. E. Hitchcock. 1841. Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts xii-831 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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]
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]