Howland's Farm tracksite, Gill

US / MA

•42.61010, -72.54246View on Map Open in Google Maps

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Howland's Farm tracksite, Gill is a fossil collection site in Franklin, 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 terrestrial indet. Documented finds include Toxichnus inaequalis, Anomoepus scambus, Eubrontes sillimani, Grallator tuberosus, Grallator tenuis, Sauropus barrattii.

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Geologic setting

Formation: Portland
Geologic interval: Hettangian to Sinemurian
Age: 201.4–192.9 Ma
Depositional environment: terrestrial indet.
Recorded occurrences: 11

Locality notes

located on old map of Gill, MA; near Turners Falls and W of Roswell Field's orchard

Fossils found here

Toxichnus inaequalis

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Anomoepus scambus

Ornithischia · Moyenisauropodidae

Eubrontes sillimani

Reptilia · Grallatoridae

Grallator tuberosus

Reptilia · Grallatoridae

Grallator tenuis

Reptilia · Grallatoridae

Sauropus barrattii

Reptilia · Sauropodidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 91669 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Coordinates: 42.61010, -72.54246

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