Moody's Corner

US / MA

•42.28056, -72.55917View on Map Open in Google Maps

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Moody's Corner is a fossil collection site in Hampshire, 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 fluvial-lacustrine indet. Documented finds include Grallator cursorius, Otozoum moodii, Eubrontes sillimani, Grallator tenuis, Eubrontes minusculus, Anomoepus scambus.

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Fossil

Geologic setting

Formation: Portland
Geologic interval: Hettangian to Sinemurian
Age: 201.4–192.9 Ma
Depositional environment: fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Altitude: 74 meters
Recorded occurrences: 17

Geology notes

"marginal, shallow-water lacustrine and small-scale fluvial"

Locality notes

in town of South Hadley, N part; in road near Pliny Moody house. Listed as 42° 16' 36" N, 72° 33' 55" W

Fossils found here

Grallator cursorius

Reptilia · Grallatoridae

Otozoum moodii

Saurischia · Otozoidae

Eubrontes sillimani

Reptilia · Grallatoridae

Grallator tenuis

Reptilia · Grallatoridae

Eubrontes minusculus

Reptilia · Grallatoridae

Anomoepus scambus

Ornithischia · Moyenisauropodidae

Kayentapus minor

Reptilia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Grallator tuberosus

Reptilia · Grallatoridae

Batrachopus deweyi

Reptilia · Batrachopodidae

Ancyropus heteroclitus

Reptilia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Sauropus barrattii

Reptilia · Sauropodidae

Steropoides infelix

Reptilia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Platypterna delicatula

Saurischia · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 52994 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Coordinates: 42.28056, -72.55917

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