Also known as Doswellia type site
Where: Hanover County, Virginia (37.8° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 2.8° N, 15.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Poor Farm Member (Falling Creek Formation), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)
• late middle Carnian (Weems 1980); Sandfordian LVF (Lucas & Huber 2003); Carnian (Dilkes & Sues 2009)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; medium, micaceous, gray, argillaceous, sandy siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: cast, trace
Collected by Kaltenbach, Hotton, Weems & Beazley in 1974; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
• specimens collected by James Kaltenbach, Nicholas Hotton III, Robert E. Weems, & Donald Beazley
Primary reference: R. E. Weems. 1980. An unusual newly discovered archosaur from the Upper Triassic of Virginia, U.S.A. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 70(7):1-53 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 68950: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.02.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gnathostomata | |
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Reptilia | |
? Rauisuchidae indet. rauisuchid | |
"Parasuchia indet." = Phytosauria
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Doswellia kaltenbachi n. gen. n. sp.
Doswellia kaltenbachi n. gen. n. sp. Weems 1980 archosauromorph USNM 244214 (holotype), partial skeleton; USNM 214823 (paratype), partial skeleton; USNM 437574, right jugal
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