Squirrel Hill Quarry (tracks) (Triassic to of the United States)

Also known as Schwenksville, Perkiomen Creek

Where: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (40.2° N, 75.5° W: paleocoordinates 15.8° N, 20.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Passaic Formation (Chatham Group), Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• originally described as Brunskwick Formation, 3300 m above base of Stubensandstein age (Triassic)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; hematitic, brown, red shale and sandstone

• "reddish-brown, hematitic shale and intercalated sandstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by E. Poole in 1939

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: W. Bock. 1952. Triassic reptilian tracks and trends of locomotive evolution. Journal of Paleontology 26(3):395-433 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68705: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.02.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Anchisauripus sp., "Otouphebus poolei n. sp." = Anchisauripus poolei
Anchisauripus sp. Lull 1904 theropod
"Otouphebus poolei n. sp." = Anchisauripus poolei Bock 1952 theropod
 Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae
Orthodactylus howelli n. sp. Bock 1952 aetosaur