Also known as Arctosaurus type, Bathurst
Where: Nunavut, Canada (76.6° N, 104.5° W: paleocoordinates 50.8° N, 31.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Heiberg Formation (Bathurst Group), Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.3 Ma)
• Orig. though to be from a "Carboniferous limestone"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; pyritic, quartzose sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by S. Osborn in 1870s
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• NMI, National Museum of Ireland
•Collected by Admiral Sherard Osborn, brough to Mr. Salter.
Primary reference: A. L. Adams. 1875. On a fossil saurian vertebra, Arctosaurus osborni, from the Arctic regions. Proceedings of the Irish Academy of Science, second series 2:177-179 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38500: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 22.04.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Arctosaurus osborni n. gen. n. sp.
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