East Berlin Formation
The East Berlin Formation is an Early Jurassic geological formation in New England. Dinosaur footprints and trackways are abundant in this formation. These tracks include Eubrontes (belonging to medium sized-theropods like Dilophosaurus), Anchisauripus (belonging to small theropods like Coelophysis), and Anomoepus (belonging to indeterminate small ornithischians).[1] Several museums, parks, and tourist attractions are based around the East Berlin Formation's dinosaur tracks, including Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill, Connecticut and Powder Hill Dinosaur Park in Middlefield, Connecticut.[2][3]
| East Berlin Formation Stratigraphic range: Early Jurassic | |
|---|---|
| Type | Geological formation |
| Unit of | Newark Supergroup |
| Location | |
| Region | New England |
| Country |  |
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Although the East Berlin Formation was originally intended to apply to the Hartford Basin of Connecticut and Massachusetts, equivalent strata is found elsewhere in the Newark Supergroup. Equivalent formations include the Waterfall Formation (Culpeper Basin; Virginia, Maryland), Towaco Formation (Newark Basin; New Jersey), White Oaks Formation (Pomperaug Basin, Connecticut), and Turner Falls Sandstone (Deerfield Basin, Massachusetts).[4]
See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
Footnotes
- Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
- Galton, Peter M.; Farlow, James O. (2003). "Dinosaur State Park, Connecticut, USA: history, footprints, trackways, exhibits" (PDF). Zubia. 21: 129–173.
- Getty, Patrick R.; Hardy, Laurel; Bush, Andrew M. (April 2015). "Was the Eubrontes Track Maker Gregarious? Testing the Herding Hypothesis at Powder Hill Dinosaur Park, Middlefield, Connecticut". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 56 (1): 95–106. doi:10.3374/014.056.0109.
- Weems, Robert E.; Tanner, Lawrence H.; Lucas, Spencer G. (2016). "Synthesis and revision of the lithostratigraphic groups and formations in the Upper Permian?–Lower Jurassic Newark Supergroup of eastern North America" (PDF). Stratigraphy. 13 (2).
References
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.