Where: Fairfax County, Virginia (38.8° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 13.2° N, 21.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Poolesville Member (Manassas Sandstone Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• lower part of member, <50 m above base of exposed sequence. Assigned to early Norian here.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected by P. Kimmel in 1983
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: R. E. Weems and P. G. Kimmel. 1993. Upper Triassic reptile footprints and a coelacanth fish scale from the Culpeper Basin, Virginia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 16(2):390-401 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 154230: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.02.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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