Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.4° N, 64.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° N, 13.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: McCoy Brook Formation (Meriden Group), Early/Lower Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• "fish bed"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; intraclastic sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: P. E. Olsen. 1989. Stop 11.3: Wasson Bluff. Paleontology. In P. E. Olsen, R. W. Schlische, & P. J. W. Gore (eds.), Tectonic, Depositional, and Paleoecological History of Early Mesozoic Rift Basins, Eastern North America. Gulf, North Carolina, USA to Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada. July 20–30, 1989. International Geological Congress Field Trip T-351 159-161 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74210: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.07.2007, edited by Richard Butler

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