Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.4° N, 64.1° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° N, 13.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: McCoy Brook Formation (Meriden Group), Early/Lower Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, trace
Collected by P. Olsen & D. Simanek in 1978; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: peel or thin section, sieve,
Primary reference: P. E. Olsen. 1981. Comment on ‘Eolian dune field of Late Triassic age, Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia’. Geology 9(12):557-559 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 138976: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Batrachopus sp. Hitchcock 1845 aetosaur | |
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Grallator cursorius, "Anchisauripus (Grallator) hitchcocki" = Grallator tenuis, "Anchisauripus (Grallator) sillimani" = Eubrontes sillimani, "Eubrontes (Grallator) giganteus" = Eubrontes giganteus
Grallator cursorius Hitchcock 1858 theropod
"Anchisauripus (Grallator) hitchcocki" = Grallator tenuis Hitchcock 1858 theropod
"Anchisauripus (Grallator) sillimani" = Eubrontes sillimani Hitchcock 1843 theropod
"Eubrontes (Grallator) giganteus" = Eubrontes giganteus Hitchcock 1836 theropod | |
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