Totoket Reservoir footprints TE: Hettangian, Connecticut
collected by M. Thorpe 1925-1928
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Grallatoridae
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Anchisauripus exsertus
(Hitchcock 1858)
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1 specimen | ||||||
| synonym of Grallator tuberosus | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Connecticut | County: | New Haven |
| Coordinates: | 41.3° North, 72.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 22.1° North, 19.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 193 feet | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
| Stage: | Hettangian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Hettangian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 201.40000 - 199.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Meriden | Formation: | East Berlin |
| Local section: | SugarLoaf | Local bed: | 84.5 m |
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | green sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "thin- to medium-bedded sandstone with greenish (chloritic) layers" | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,mold/impression,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Abundance in sediment: | common |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | salvage,surface (float),field collection,observed (not collected) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | YPM | ||
| Collectors: | M. Thorpe | Collection dates: | 1925-1928 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Lake Gaillard, North Branford | ||
| Database number: | 51259 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-06-01 12:44:06 | Last modified: | 2021-05-07 20:19:36 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-06-01 12:44:06 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13651. | M. R. Thorpe. 1929. A new Triassic fossil field. The American Journal of Science, series 5 18(106):277-300 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |