Lily Pond Quarry, Gill
Franklin County, Massachusetts42.60677, −72.53095
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Minerals on record here
1 mineralRecorded here: fossil.
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About Lily Pond Quarry, Gill
Lily Pond Quarry, Gill is a fossil collection site in Franklin, Massachusetts, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Turners Falls Formation, dated to the Hettangian (201.4–199.5 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as fluvial-lacustrine indet. Documented finds include Grallator tenuis, Kayentapus minor, Grallator tuberosus, Eubrontes sillimani, Grallator cursorius, Eubrontes giganteus.
Geologic setting
- Formation
- Turners Falls
- Geologic interval
- Hettangian
- Age
- 201.4–199.5 Ma
- Depositional environment
- fluvial-lacustrine indet.
- Altitude
- 54 meters
- Recorded occurrences
- 131
Locality notes
within town of Gill, upstream from Turner's Falls, at the Lily Pond (now underwater) just E of Barton Cove, near the mouth of Miller's River
Fossils found here
Grallator tenuis
Reptilia · Grallatoridae
Kayentapus minor
Reptilia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Grallator tuberosus
Reptilia · Grallatoridae
Eubrontes sillimani
Reptilia · Grallatoridae
Grallator cursorius
Reptilia · Grallatoridae
Eubrontes giganteus
Reptilia · Grallatoridae
Eubrontes minusculus
Reptilia · Grallatoridae
Gigandipus caudatus
Reptilia · Grallatoridae
Eubrontes fieldi
Reptilia · Grallatoridae
Anomoepus scambus
Ornithischia · Moyenisauropodidae
Conopsoides
NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Sauropus barrattii
Reptilia · Sauropodidae
Eubrontes lyellii
Reptilia · Grallatoridae
Batrachopus gracilis
Reptilia · Batrachopodidae
Batrachopus bellus
Reptilia · Batrachopodidae
Argoides minimus
Saurischia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Batrachopus deweyi
Reptilia · Batrachopodidae
Bisulcus undulatus
NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Plesiornis pilulatus
Saurischia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Anomoepus lacertoideus
Ornithischia · Moyenisauropodidae
Argoides macrodactylus
Saurischia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Palamopus divaricans
Reptilia · Batrachopodidae
Steropoides uncus
Reptilia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Tarsodactylus caudatus
Reptilia · Batrachopodidae
Helcura caudata
Reptilia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Helcura surgens
Reptilia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Helcura anguinea
Reptilia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Xiphopeza triplex
Reptilia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Acanthichnus
NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Trisulcus laqueatus
Polycystinea · Lophophaenidae
Herpystezoum
NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Bifurculipes
NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Cochlichnus anguineus
NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Copeza
NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Cochlichnus
NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Insecta
Insecta
Harpepus
NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Sagittarius
NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Hexapodichnus
NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Grammepus erismatus
NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Plectropterna angusta
Reptilia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Plectropterna lineans
Reptilia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Plectropterna
Reptilia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Triaenopus
Amphibia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Batrachopus
Reptilia · Batrachopodidae
Trihamus elegans
Saurischia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Grammichnus alpha
NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Argoides
Saurischia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED
Showing 48 of 74 identified taxa.
Records and references
Data: Paleobiology Database collection 52986 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record
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Questions about Lily Pond Quarry, Gill
Can you collect at Lily Pond Quarry, Gill?
It depends on who owns the land and whether a mining claim covers it. BLM land usually allows hand collecting for personal use, national parks allow none, and private land needs the owner’s permission. Pro members see the owner and any claims at this spot.
What minerals are found at Lily Pond Quarry, Gill?
Fossil.
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