The Portland Formation is a geological formation in Connecticut and Massachusetts in the northeastern United States. It dates back to the Early Jurassic period. The formation consists mainly of sandst
Anchisaurus NT
Holcoptera schlotheimi elytron NHMUK I.6653
Podokesaurus is a genus of coelophysoid dinosaur that lived in what is now the eastern United States during the Early Jurassic Period. The first fossil was discovered by the geologist Mignon Talbot ne
Portland Formation
…Sauropodomorph. Many Otozoum tracks in the formation that may belong to Anchisaurus could have been made by potentially even larger specimens of the genus. Podokesaurus P. holyokensis Massachusetts Partial postcranial skeleton. A coelophysoid theropod. The only specimen was destroyed in a fire. Neotheropoda sp…
1915 skeletal reconstruction by Richard Swann Lull; shaded areas were known from the fossil, missing parts were reconstructed after Compsognathus
Model by Lull at the Peabody Museum
Mignon Talbot (second from left) and students searching the rubble of the burned down Williston Hall in 1917