Red Head tracksite, St Mary's Bay (Triassic of Canada)

Also known as Rossway

Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (44.6° N, 65.9° W: paleocoordinates 20.0° N, 13.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Blomidon Formation (Chatham Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• middle part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; fine-grained, red sandstone

• "red, ripple cross-laminated, fine-grained sandstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected by P. Olsen & A. Litt in 1978; reposited in the YPM

Primary reference: P. E. Olsen, A. R. McCune, and K. S. Thomson. 1982. Correlation of the early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup by vertebrates, principally fishes. American Journal of Science 282:1-44 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138975: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
"Grallator (Anchisauripus) sillimani" = Eubrontes sillimani, "Anchisauripus cf. hitchcocki" = Grallator tenuis
"Grallator (Anchisauripus) sillimani" = Eubrontes sillimani Hitchcock 1843 theropod
"Anchisauripus cf. hitchcocki" = Grallator tenuis Hitchcock 1858 theropod
YPM 8664
 Squamata -
Rhynchosauroides sp.
Rhynchosauroides sp. Maidwell 1911 squamates