Also known as Westfield fish bed

Where: Middlesex County, Connecticut (41.6° N, 72.7° W: paleocoordinates 22.3° N, 19.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: East Berlin Formation (Meriden Group), Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• in the "Westfield fish bed"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; black, gray, silty, calcareous shale and massive, gray, calcareous siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: B. Schaeffer and N. G. McDonald. 1978. Redfieldiid fishes from the Triassic-Liassic Newark Supergroup of eastern North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 159(4):129-174 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224082: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.01.2022

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