Cape Egmont (Carboniferous of Canada)

Where: Prince Edward Island, Canada (46.4° N, 64.1° W: paleocoordinates 3.1° S, 3.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Egmont Bay Formation, Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• "The Egmont Bay Formation crops out along the western part of the island, and is regarded to be latest Pennsylvanian (Stephanian) in geological age on the basis of plant body fossils and pollen"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the ROM

Collection methods: mechanical

Primary reference: S. P. Modesto, D. M. Scott, M. J. MacDougall, H.-D. Sues, D. C. Evans and R. R. Reisz. 2015. The oldest parareptile and the early diversification of reptiles. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282:20141912 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171344: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 07.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Bolosauria -
Erpetonyx arsenaultorum n. gen. n. sp.
Erpetonyx arsenaultorum n. gen. n. sp. Modesto et al. 2015 parareptile
ROM 55402, holotype, a nearly complete, mostly articulated skeleton