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
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 | |
Anchisauripus sp., "Otouphebus poolei n. sp." = Anchisauripus poolei
Anchisauripus sp. Lull 1904 theropod
"Otouphebus poolei n. sp." = Anchisauripus poolei Bock 1952 theropod | |
Orthodactylus howelli n. sp.
Orthodactylus howelli n. sp. Bock 1952 aetosaur |