Where: York County, Pennsylvania (40.2° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 14.6° N, 21.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Gettysburg Formation (Chatham Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• 4120 m above the base of the New Oxford Formation and 2850 m below the Heidlersbury Member or the Gettysburg Formation; 3 horizons within a 37-inch thickness; Gettysburg section
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected by Wanner in 1887; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: A. Wanner. 1889. The discovery of fossil tracks, algae, etc., in the Triassic of York county, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Geological Survey Annual Report 1887:21-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 55413: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 20.10.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Anomoepus gracillimus" = Anomoepus scambus2
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"Anisichnus gracilis" = Batrachopus gracilis2
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Scoyenia sp.3 White 1929 |