Wolfville Formation

{{Short description|Geologic formation in Nova Scotia, Canada}} {{Infobox rockunit | name = Wolfville Formation | image = | caption = | type = [[Geological formation]] | age = [[Carnian]]-[[Norian]]<br>~{{fossilrange|235|222}} | period = Norian | prilithology = | otherlithology = | namedfor = | namedby = | region = [[Nova Scotia]] | country = [[Canada]] | coordinates = | unitof = | subunits = | underlies = [[Blomidon Formation]] | overlies = | thickness = {{convert|833|m|ft|abbr=on}} in outcrop<ref name="Tanner">{{cite journal|last=Tanner|first=L.H.|year=1996|title=Formal definition of the Lower Jurassic McCoy Brook Formation, Fundy Rift Basin, eastern Canada|journal=Atlantic Geology|volume=32|issue=2|pages=127–135|doi=10.4138/2083|doi-access=free}}</ref> | extent = | area = | map = | map_caption = }}

The '''Wolfville Formation''' is a [[Triassic]] geologic [[Formation (geology)|formation]] of [[Nova Scotia]]. The formation is of [[Carnian]] to early [[Norian]] age.<ref name="Leleu">{{cite journal|last=Leleu|first=S.|author2=Hartley A.J. |year=2010|title=Controls on the stratigraphic development of the Triassic Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia: implications for the tectonostratigraphic evolution of Triassic Atlantic rift basins |journal=Journal of the Geological Society|publisher=[[Geological Society]]|volume=167|issue=3|pages=437–454|doi=10.1144/0016-76492009-092|bibcode=2010JGSoc.167..437L|s2cid=128821402}}</ref> Fossils of small land vertebrates have been found in the formation, including [[procolophonid]] and early [[archosauromorph]] reptiles and [[cynodont]]s. [[Dinosaur]] remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific [[genus]].<ref name="dinosaurdistribution">Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.</ref>

== Vertebrate fauna == === Synapsids === {| class="wikitable" align="center" |- ! colspan="7" align="center" | '''[[Synapsid]]s of the Wolfville Formation''' |- ! Genus !! Species !! Member !! Abundance !! Notes !! Images |- | ''[[Arctotraversodon]]''<ref name=SHS92>{{cite journal |last=Sues |first=H.-D. |author2=Hopson, J.A. |author3= Shubin, N.H. |year=1992 |title=Affinities of ''?Scalenodontoides plemmyridon'' Hopson, 1984 (Synapsida: Cynodontia) from the Upper Triassic of Nova Scotia |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=168–17 |doi=10.1080/02724634.1992.10011447|bibcode=1992JVPal..12..168S }}</ref> | ''A. plemmyridon'' | | | | |- |}

=== Archosauromorphs === {| class="wikitable" align="center" |- ! colspan="7" align="center" | '''[[Archosauromorph]]s of the Wolfville Formation''' |- ! Genus !! Species !! Member !! Abundance !! Notes !! Images |- | ''[[Teraterpeton]]''<ref name=SH-D03>{{cite journal |last=Sues |first=H.-D. |year=2003 |title=An unusual new archosauromorph reptile from the Upper Triassic Wolfville Formation of Nova Scotia |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=635–649 |doi= 10.1139/e02-048|doi-access=|bibcode=2003CaJES..40..635S }}</ref> | ''T. hrynewichorum '' | | | | [[File:Teraterpeton NT.jpg|thumb|center|200px|''[[Teraterpeton hrynewichorum]]'']] |- | ''[[Oryctorhynchus]]'' | ''O. bairdi'' | | | | |- |}

=== Procolophonids === {| class="wikitable" align="center" |- ! colspan="7" align="center" | '''[[Procolophonid]]s of the Wolfville Formation''' |- ! Genus !! Species !! Member !! Abundance !! Notes !! Images |- | ''[[Acadiella]]'' | ''A. psalidodon'' | | | See [http://www.palaeocritti.com/by-group/anapsida/procolophonoidea] | |- | ''[[Haligonia]]'' | ''H. bolodon'' | | | See [http://www.palaeocritti.com/by-group/anapsida/procolophonoidea] | |- | ?''[[Scoloparia]]'' | ''S. glyphanodon'' | | | See [http://www.palaeocritti.com/by-group/anapsida/procolophonoidea] | |- |} {{paleobiota-key-compact}}

== See also == * [[List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations]] ** [[List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils]]

== References == {{reflist}}

=== Bibliography === * {{cite book |editor-last=[[David B. Weishampel|Weishampel]] |editor-first=David B. |editor-last2=[[Peter Dodson|Dodson]] |editor-first2=Peter |editor-last3=[[Halszka Osmólska|Osmólska]] |editor-first3=Halszka |year=2004 |title=The Dinosauria|edition=2nd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vtZFDb_iw40C |location=Berkeley|publisher= University of California Press |pages=1–880 |accessdate=2019-02-21|isbn=0-520-24209-2}}

[[Category:Geologic formations of Nova Scotia]] [[Category:Triassic System of North America]] [[Category:Carnian Stage]] [[Category:Paleontology in Nova Scotia]]