East Berlin

63 occ. 14 taxa (3 genera) 1 countries

Description

The East Berlin Formation is an Early Jurassic geological formation in New England, United States. Dinosaur footprints and trackways are abundant in this formation. These tracks include Eubrontes, Anchisauripus, and Anomoepus. 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.

Genera

3 genera

Anchisauripus

Dinosaurs

Valid Ichnogenus Formal taxon 5 occ. · 247 Ma

Eubrontes

Dinosaurs

Valid Ichnogenus 4 occ. · 250 Ma

Grallator

Dinosaurs

Valid Ichnogenus 3 occ. · 250 Ma

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A trackway of the trace fossil Bifurculapes laqueatus (positive hyporelief, i.e. casts on the bottom surface of the bed) from the Early Jurassic East Berlin Formation (Hartford Basin) of Holyoke, Massachusetts (not the same specimen as this one). Scale is in cm. © Patrick Getty · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikipedia

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

Geological group / Member

Meriden 63

Top countries

🇺🇸 United States 63

Depositional environments

Fluvial-lacustrine indet. 34

Terrestrial indet. 14

Large lake 8

Lacustrine indet. 7

Top collectors

M. Thorpe 18

D. Marsh 8

R. Nelson 6

E. McCarthy 4

P. Galton 4

S. Quarrier 4

G. Gaulin 4

S. Dalman 4

J. Ostrom 4

Bassett 1

Collection activity by decade

1830s 8

1850s 9

1920s 36

1930s 11

1960s 15

1970s 4

1990s 4

2000s 12