Wasson Bluff (tracksite): Early/Lower Hettangian, Canada
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Batrachopodidae
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Batrachopus sp.
Hitchcock 1845
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
- Grallatoridae
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Grallator (Anchisauripus) cf. sillimani
(Hitchcock 1843)
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| recombined as Eubrontes sillimani | |||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | Nova Scotia |
| Coordinates: | 45.4° North, 64.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.4° North, 13.3° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
| Stage: | Hettangian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Hettangian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 201.40000 - 199.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Meriden | Formation: | McCoy Brook |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | current ripples sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "laterally persistent beds of apparently ripple cross-laminated, water-laid, reworked eolian sandstone" | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 227835 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2022-11-04 14:34:53 | Last modified: | 2023-06-15 13:25:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2022-11-04 14:34:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 83037. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 85047 | D. B. Weishampel and L. Young. 1996. Dinosaurs of the East Coast xiii-275 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |