Shuttle Meadow Formation Explained

Shuttle Meadow Formation
Type:	Geological formation
Age:	Hettangian ~
Period:	Hettangian
Prilithology:	Black shale
Otherlithology:	Siltstone
Region:	New England
Coordinates:	41.4°N -72.7°W
Paleocoordinates:	22.1°N -19.5°W
Unitof:	Newark Supergroup  Meriden Group
Underlies:	Talcott Formation
Extent:	and

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]

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils

References

Bibliography

• Book: . David B. . . Peter . . Halszka . 2004 . The Dinosauria. 2nd . Berkeley. University of California Press . 1–880 . 2019-02-21. 0-520-24209-2.

Further reading

• 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

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.