ammonites
New Egypt coal mine (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Chatham County, North Carolina (35.6° N, 79.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 23.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cumnock Formation (Newark Group), Norian (221.5 - 205.6 Ma)

• "Conewagian LVF", previously considered late Carnian in age but redated as early Norian (Sues & Fraser 2010. Triassic Life on Land)

•Sanford subbasin of the Richmond Basin

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. F. Osborn. 1886. A new mammal from the American triassic. Science 8(201):540 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99429: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 11.11.2010