Wolfville Formation
Wolfville Formation Stratigraphic range: Upper Triassic | |
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Type | Geological formation |
Underlies | Blomidon Formation |
Thickness | 833 m at outcrop[1] |
Location | |
Region | Nova Scotia |
Country | Canada |
The Wolfville Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation of Nova Scotia. The formation is of Carnian to early Norian (Upper Triassic) in age.[2] Fossils of small land vertebrates have been found in the formation, including procolophonid and early archosauromorph reptiles and cynodonts. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus.[3]
Vertebrate fauna
Synapsids
Color key
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Notes Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; |
Synapsids of the Wolfville Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Member | Abundance | Notes | Images | |
A. plemmyridon |
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A. buceros |
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Archosauromorphs
Archosauromorphs of the Wolfville Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Member | Abundance | Notes | Images | |
T. hrynewichorum |
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Procolophonids
Procolophonids of the Wolfville Formation | ||||||
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Genus | Species | Member | Abundance | Notes | Images | |
Acadiella |
A. psalidodon |
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Haligonia |
H. bolodon |
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S. glyphanodon |
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See also
References
- ↑ Tanner, L.H. (1996). "Formal definition of the Lower Jurassic McCoy Brook Formation, Fundy Rift Basin, eastern Canada". Atlantic Geology. 32: 127–135. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
- ↑ Leleu, S.; Hartley A.J. (2010). "Controls on the stratigraphic development of the Triassic Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia: implications for the tectonostratigraphic evolution of Triassic Atlantic rift basins". Journal of the Geological Society. Geological Society. 167: 437–454. doi:10.1144/0016-76492009-092. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
- ↑ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- ↑ Sues, H.-D.; Hopson, J.A.; Shubin, N.H. (1992). "Affinities of ?Scalenodontoides plemmyridon Hopson, 1984 (Synapsida: Cynodontia) from the Upper Triassic of Nova Scotia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 12 (2): 168–17. doi:10.1080/02724634.1992.10011447.
- ↑ Sues, H.-D. (2003). "An unusual new archosauromorph reptile from the Upper Triassic Wolfville Formation of Nova Scotia". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 40 (4): 635–649. doi:10.1139/E02-04.
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
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