Etna mine, Midlothian (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Chesterfield County, Virginia (37.5° N, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 11.6° N, 21.9° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)

• "upper part of lower" Newark Supergroup

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; claystone and gray, green shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by N. Shaler & J. Woodworth in the 1890s

Collection methods: salvage,

Primary reference: N. S. Shaler and J. B. Woodworth. 1899. Geology of the Richmond Basin, Virginia. In C. D. Walcott (ed.), Nineteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior 1897-98. Part II—Papers Chiefly of a Theoretic Nature 385-515 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 192421: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.04.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Annelida indet. Lamarck 1809
burrows
Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Chirotheriidae
Chirotherium sp. Kaup 1835 archosaur
footprints
Amphibia
  -
Batrachia indet. tetrapod
footprints
Actinopteri
 Holostei -
Holostei indet. Müller 1846
"ganoid fishes"