Wheatley's Copper Mines, Emigsville (AMNH): Norian, Pennsylvania
collected by Cope, Wheatley

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Belodon priscus (Leidy 1856)
Lyman 1894
nomen dubium belonging to Phytosauria
Suchoprion aulacodus (Cope 1877)
Lyman 1894
nomen dubium belonging to Phytosauria
Palaeoctonus appalachianus Cope 1877
Lyman 1894
nomen dubium belonging to Phytosauria
Palaeosaurus fraserianus n. sp. Cope 1878
1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Phytosauria
Reptilia - Parasuchidae
Belodon caroliniensis (Emmons 1856)
Lyman 1894
original and current combination Rutiodon carolinensis
Reptilia
Suchoprion cyphodon Cope 1877
Lyman 1894
nomen dubium belonging to Phytosauria
Clepsysaurus veatleianus Cope 1877
Lyman 1894
nomen dubium belonging to Phytosauria
Thecodontosaurus gibbidens n. sp. Cope 1878
2 elements
nomen dubium belonging to Revueltosaurus
AMNH 2339
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Metoposauridae indet. Watson 1919
Baird 1986 2 elements
AMNH 1850, 1863, clavicle and interclavicle
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Pennsylvania County:York
Coordinates: 40.0° North, 76.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.4° North, 21.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:131 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Norian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Norian
Age range of interval:227.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chatham Formation:New Oxford
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Disassociated major elements:all
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:AMNH
Collectors:Cope, Wheatley
Taxonomic list comments:Huene (1921) incorrectly identified several of the remains from Emigsville as coming from the Phoenixville Tunnel locality.
Metadata
Also known as:Emiggsville
Database number:59371
Authorizer:M. Carrano, R. Butler Enterer:M. Carrano, R. Butler
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-03-29 08:49:16 Last modified:2023-06-14 15:39:12
Access level:the public Released:2006-03-29 08:49:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
15674.ETE E. D. Cope. 1878. On some Saurians found in the Triassic of Pennsylvania, by C. M. Wheatley. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17(100):231-232 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

31017 D. Baird. 1986. Some Upper Triassic reptiles, footprints and an amphibian from New Jersey. The Mosasaur 3:125-153 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]
35756 E. H. Colbert and J. Imbrie. 1956. Triassic metoposaurid amphibians. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 110:399-452 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
44704 P. M. Galton. 1983. The oldest ornithischian dinosaurs in North America from the Late Triassic of Nova Scotia, N.C., and Pa. Geological Society of America 18th Annual Meeting, Northeastern Section, Kiamesha Lake, NY. Abstracts with Programs 15(3):122 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76875% 49960F. v. Huene. 1921. Reptilian and stegocephalian remains from the Triassic of Pennsylvania in the Cope collection. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 44:561-574 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/M. Carrano]
24317ETE F. v. Huene. 1940. Die Saurier der Karroo-, Gondwana-, und verwandten Ablagerungen in faunistischer, biologischer und phylogenetischer Hinsicht [Saurians of the Karroo, Gondwana, and other deposits in faunistic, biological, and phylogenetic regard]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Beilage-Band, Abteilung B 83:246-347 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
15400ETE A. P. Hunt and S. G. Lucas. 1994. Ornithischian dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of the United States. In N. C. Fraser & H.-D. Sues (eds.), In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 227-241 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
32304 R. B. Irmis, W. G. Parker, S. J. Nesbitt and J. Liu. 2007. Early ornithischian dinosaurs: the Triassic record. Historical Biology 19(1):3-22 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]
53034 B. S. Lyman. 1894. Some New Red horizons. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 33:192-215 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
18104ETE D. B. Norman, L. M. Witmer, and D. B. Weishampel. 2004. Basal Ornithischia. In D. B. Weishampel, H. Osmolska, and P. Dodson (eds.), The Dinosauria (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley 325-334 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
28828 R. Schoch and A. R. Milner. 2000. Stereospondyli. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie - Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 3B:1-203 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]
17037ETE R. M. Sullivan, S. G. Lucas, and K. A. Randall. 1995. Late Triassic vertebrate fauna from the Zions View locality (Little Conewago Creek), York County, Pennsylvania. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(3, suppl.):55A [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
61518 D. B. Weishampel and J. B. Weishampel. 1983. Annotated localities of ornithopod dinosaurs: implications to Mesozoic paleobiogeography. The Mosasaur 1:43-87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
85047 D. B. Weishampel and L. Young. 1996. Dinosaurs of the East Coast xiii-275 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]