Also known as Virginia Solite Quarry, CB1

Where: Rockingham County, North Carolina (36.5° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 23.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Cow Branch Formation), Norian (221.5 - 205.6 Ma)

• Upper Member refered to as CB2. The footprint-bearing block was not found in place but is believed to come from the Upper Member. Body fossils from cycles 2, 3, and 16 within the quarry series

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; dolomitic, black, gray siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, trace, soft parts

Collected by P. Olsen in 1974-; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical, peel or thin section,

• Footprint specimen is a latex peel of the large trackway-bearing slab.

Primary reference: P. E. Olsen. 1979. A new aquatic eosuchian from the Newark Supergroup (Late Triassic–Early Jurassic) of North Carolina and Virginia. Postilla 176:1-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55493: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 27.10.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano, Mark Uhen, Margaret Shalap, Jered Karr and Matthew Clapham

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