Shuttle Meadow Formation

Shuttle Meadow Formation
Stratigraphic range: Hettangian
~201–199 Ma

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	Talcott Formation over Shuttle Meadow Formation in a quarry (Connecticut)
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	Newark Supergroup; Meriden Group
Underlies	Talcott Formation
Lithology
Primary	Black shale
Other	Siltstone
Location
Coordinates	41.4°N 72.7°W
Approximate paleocoordinates	22.1°N 19.5°W
Region	New England
Country	United States
Extent	Connecticut and Massachusetts
	Shuttle Meadow Formation (the United States) Shuttle Meadow Formation (Connecticut)

The Shuttle Meadow Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in the Hartford Basin in Connecticut and Massachusetts, USA.[1] Insect fossils of Mormolucoides articulatus and dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation; Coelophysis sp..[2]

References

Olsen, P.E., Schliesche, R.W., Gore, P.J.W. (Editors), 1989, Tectonic, Depositional, and Paleoecological History of Early Mesozoic Rift Basins, Eastern North America Field Trip Guidebook T351. International Geological Congress Field Trip T351. American Geophysical Union, Washington, 174 p.
Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.

Weishampel, David B.; Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska (eds.). 2004. The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 1–880. Berkeley: University of California Press. Accessed 2019-02-21. ISBN 0-520-24209-2

P. Huber, N. G. McDonald, and P. E. Olsen. 2003. Early Jurassic insects from the Newark Supergroup, northeastern United States. In P. M. LeTourneau, P. E. Olsen (eds.), The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America, Volume 2: Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Paleontology 206-223
P. M. Galton. 1976. Prosauropod dinosaurs (Reptilia: Saurischia) of North America. Postilla 169:1-98

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