Phoenixville Tunnel: Norian, Pennsylvania
collected 1857
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Estheriidae indet.
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Schaeffer and McDonald 1978 | |||||||||
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Coelacanthimorpha
- Coelacanthiformes
- Dipluridae
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Diplurus sp.
Newberry 1878
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Schaeffer and McDonald 1978 | |||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Metoposauridae
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Mastodonsaurus durus n. sp.
Cope 1866
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Metoposauridae | ||||||||||
| AMNH 3927, fragment of skull roof | ||||||||||
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Palaeonisciformes
- Palaeoniscidae
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Turseodus acutus n. sp.
Leidy 1857
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Schaeffer 1952 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
| ANSP 14535, AMNH 8107 | ||||||||||
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Palaeonisciformes
- Redfieldiidae
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Redfieldiidae indet.
Hutchinson 1973
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Schaeffer and McDonald 1978 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Pennsylvania | County: | Chester |
| Coordinates: | 40.1° North, 75.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 14.6° North, 20.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Triassic |
| Stage: | Norian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Norian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 227.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | black carbonaceous "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | massive,green,red claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "massive, red-green argillites and thin, bituminous black shales" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | salvage,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | AMNH | Collection dates: | 1857 |
| Taxonomic list comments:No longer includes the type of Thecodontosaurus gibbidens, now thought to have come from Emigsville. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 107421 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler, M. Carrano | Enterer: | R. Butler, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-04-07 22:16:28 | Last modified: | 2023-06-14 15:38:37 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-04-07 22:16:28 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 15618. | ETE | E. D. Cope. 1866. [A few observations on some of the extinct vertebrates of the Mesozoic Red Sandstone]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 18:249-250 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 31017 | D. Baird. 1986. Some Upper Triassic reptiles, footprints and an amphibian from New Jersey. The Mosasaur 3:125-153 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano] | |
| 35756 | E. H. Colbert and J. Imbrie. 1956. Triassic metoposaurid amphibians. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 110:399-452 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 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] | |
| 79069 | B. Schaeffer. 1952. The palaeoniscoid fish Turseodus from the Upper Triassic Newark Group. American Museum Novitates 1581:1-24 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 79067 | B. Schaeffer and N. G. McDonald. 1978. Redfieldiid fishes from the Triassic-Liassic Newark Supergroup of eastern North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 159(4):129-174 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 85047 | D. B. Weishampel and L. Young. 1996. Dinosaurs of the East Coast xiii-275 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |