Pekin
Description
Source: Wikipédia
The Pekin Formation is a Late Triassic (Carnian) geological formation in North Carolina. The Pekin Formation is specific to the Sanford Sub-Basin of the Deep River Basin of North Carolina, although it may be equivalent to the Stockton Formation of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. The Pekin Formation was deposited in a rift basin along the Atlantic margin of North America during the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea during the Late Triassic. The most common rocks in the Pekin Formation are red to brown sandstones, representing a terrestrial fluvial (riverine) and floodplain environment in a hot, humid climate. It has yielded both abundant plant and animal fossils, including some of the oldest potential dinosaur footprints in the world and the large predatory crocodylomorph Carnufex carolinensis.
Découvertes
Source: The Paleobiology Database
Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 1
Pomona Terra-cotta (Pomona A) : North Carolina - Chatham Publication(s)
La base comprend 2 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 P. E. Olsen and P. Huber. 1998. The oldest Late Triassic footprint assemblage from North America (Pekin Formation, Deep River basin, North Carolina, USA). Southeastern Geology 38(2):77-90
- ↑1 P. J. W. Gore. 1989. Stop 1.1: Boren Clay Products Quarry, Gulf, NC. Tectonic, Depositional, and Paleoecological History of Early Mesozoic Rift Basins, Eastern North America. Gulf, North Carolina, USA to Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada. July 20–30, 1989. International Geological Congress Field Trip T-351