Wolfville Formation

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Wolfville Formation
Stratigraphic range: Upper Triassic
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
Taxon Reclassified taxon Taxon falsely reported as present Dubious taxon or junior synonym Ichnotaxon Ootaxon Morphotaxon
 Notes
Uncertain or tentative taxa are in small text; crossed out taxa are discredited.
Synapsids of the Wolfville Formation
Genus Species Member Abundance Notes Images

Arctotraversodon[4]

A. plemmyridon

Arctosuchus

A. buceros

Archosauromorphs

Archosauromorphs of the Wolfville Formation
Genus Species Member Abundance Notes Images

Teraterpeton[5]

T. hrynewichorum

Procolophonids

Procolophonids of the Wolfville Formation
Genus Species Member Abundance Notes Images

Acadiella

 
A. psalidodon
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Haligonia

 
H. bolodon
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?Scoloparia

 
S. glyphanodon
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See also

References

  1. ↑ 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. 
  2. ↑ 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. Retrieved 15 December 2012. 
  3. ↑ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  4. ↑ Sues, H.-D.; Hopson, J.A.; and 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. 
  5. ↑ Sues, H.-D. (2003). "An unusual new archosauromorph reptile from the Upper Triassic Wolfville Formation of Nova Scotia". Canadian Journal of Earth Science 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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