Shuttle Meadow Formation

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]

Shuttle Meadow Formation Stratigraphic range: Hettangian ~201–199 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
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 / 41.4; -72.7
Approximate paleocoordinates	22.1°N 19.5°W / 22.1; -19.5
Region	New England
Country	United States
Extent	Connecticut and  Massachusetts
Shuttle Meadow Formation (the United States) Show map of the United States Shuttle Meadow Formation (Connecticut) Show map of Connecticut

See also

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

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.

Bibliography

• Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 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