Richmond-Area Triassic Faunas

Recent museum projects have targeted the Newark Supergroup basins near Richmond, Virginia, including the Richmond, Deep Run, and Taylorsville basins.Collections from the Taylorsville Basin include hard sandstones containing hundreds of fish skeletal elements and reptilian teeth and bones.

Partial hindlimb skeleton of an unidentified archosauriform reptile from the Ashland Triassic Site



Plant stems and fern fronds from the Ashland Triassic Site



Partial cynodont therapsid dentary from Midlothian, Virginia