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Chicopee Falls tracksite

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•42.15891, -72.57713View on MapOpen in Google Maps
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Chicopee Falls tracksite is a fossil collection site in Hampden, Massachusetts, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Portland Formation, dated to the Hettangian to Sinemurian (201.4–192.9 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as lacustrine - small. Documented finds include Grallator tenuis, Eubrontes sillimani, Grallator tuberosus, Anomoepus scambus, Argoides redfieldii, Plectropterna minitans.

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Fossil

Geologic setting

Formation
Portland
Geologic interval
Hettangian to Sinemurian
Age
201.4–192.9 Ma
Depositional environment
lacustrine - small
Altitude
52 meters
Recorded occurrences
20
Geology notes

"ephemeral lake or playa existing during the regressive aprt of the lake cycles"

Locality notes

quarries in the bed of the Chicopee River and along N bank, at Chicopee Falls; listed as 42° 9' 6" N, 72° 35' W but coordinates above are for actual falls and river bank

Fossils found here

Grallator tenuis
Reptilia · Grallatoridae
Eubrontes sillimani
Reptilia · Grallatoridae
Grallator tuberosus
Reptilia · Grallatoridae
Anomoepus scambus
Ornithischia · Moyenisauropodidae
Argoides redfieldii
Saurischia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Plectropterna minitans
Reptilia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Polemarchus polemarchius
Reptilia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Eubrontes giganteus
Reptilia · Grallatoridae
Argoides macrodactylus
Saurischia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Sillimanius tetradactylus
Reptilia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Plesiornis pilulatus
Saurischia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Eubrontes
Reptilia · Grallatoridae
Sauropus barrattii
Reptilia · Sauropodidae
Plectropus longipes
Reptilia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Platypterna tenuis
Saurischia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 53028 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Coordinates: 42.15891, -72.57713

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