Eureka Quarry, Fairfield (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Bucks County, Pennsylvania (40.3° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 14.8° N, 20.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• upper Lockatong

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: W. Bock. 1959. New eastern American Triassic fishes and Triassic correlations. Geological Center Research Studies 1:1-139 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 221020: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.06.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Actinopterygii - Turseoidae
Gwyneddichtis major n. gen. n. sp., Eurecana gyrolepis n. gen. n. sp.
Gwyneddichtis major n. gen. n. sp. Bock 1959 ray-finned fish
ANSP Bock 301, 321
Eurecana gyrolepis n. gen. n. sp. Bock 1959 ray-finned fish
ANSP Bock 801, 803
Chondrichthyes
 Ctenacanthiformes -
Carinacanthus jepseni Bryant 1934 elasmobranch