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 | |
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
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