Mount Holyoke Seminary tracksite, South Hadley (Jurassic to of the United States)

Also known as Lull 15

Where: Hampshire County, Massachusetts (42.3° N, 72.6° W: paleocoordinates 24.0° N, 18.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Portland Formation (Agawam Group), Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: E. Hitchcock. 1836. Beschreibung der Fuss-Spuren von Vögeln (Ornithichnites) [Description of the footprints of birds (Ornithichnites)]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrfakten-Kunde 1836:467-472 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 53031: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.09.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Pseudofossil -
Batrachoides nidificans Hitchcock 1858