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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