The Wolfville Formation is a Mesozoic

Mesozoic

The Mesozoic era is an interval of geological time from about 250 million years ago to about 65 million years ago. It is often referred to as the age of reptiles because reptiles, namely dinosaurs, were the dominant terrestrial and marine vertebrates of the time...

 geologic formation of Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

. The formation is late Carnian

Carnian

The Carnian is the lowermost stage of the Upper Triassic series . It lasted from about 228.7 till 216.5 million years ago . The Carnian is preceded by the Ladinian and is followed by the Norian...

 to early Norian

Norian

The Norian is a division of the Triassic geological period. It has the rank of an age or stage . The Norian lasted from 216.5 ± 2.0 to 203.6 ± 1.5 million years ago. It was preceded by the Carnian and succeeded by the Rhaetian.-Stratigraphic definitions:The Norian was named after the Noric Alps in...

 in age. Fossils of small land vertebrates have been found in the formation, including procolophonid

Procolophonid

The Procolophonids - family Procolophonidae - are a group of small reptiles. Skulls have been discovered, roughly 5 cm in diameter....

 and early archosauromorph reptiles and cynodont

Cynodont

Cynodontia or cynodonts are a taxon of therapsids which first appeared in the Late Permian and were eventually distributed throughout all seven continents by the Early Triassic . This clade includes modern mammals and their extinct close relatives. They were one of the most diverse groups of...

s. Dinosaur

Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

 remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

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Synapsids

Synapsid Synapsid Synapsids are a group of animals that includes mammals and everything more closely related to mammals than to other living amniotes. They are easily separated from other amniotes by having an opening low in the skull roof behind each eye, leaving a bony arch beneath each, accounting for their name... s of the Wolfville Formation
Genus	Species	Member	Abundance	Notes	Images
Arctotraversodon Arctotraversodon Arctotraversodon is a genus of traversodontid cynodont from the Late Triassic of Canada. Fossils first described from the Wolfville Formation in Nova Scotia in 1984 and represented the first known traversodontid from North America. The type and only species is A...	A. plemmyridon
Arctosuchus Arctosuchus Arctosuchus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid.-References:*...	A. buceros

Archosauromorphs

Archosauromorphs of the Wolfville Formation
Genus	Species	Member	Abundance	Notes	Images
Teraterpeton Teraterpeton Teraterpeton is an extinct genus of basal archosauromorph. A partial skeleton was described from the Late Triassic Wolfville Formation of Nova Scotia in 2003. It has many unique features seen in no other related form, including an elongated, toothless snout and large openings for the nostrils...	T. hrynewichorum

Procolophonids

Procolophonid Procolophonid The Procolophonids - family Procolophonidae - are a group of small reptiles. Skulls have been discovered, roughly 5 cm in diameter.... s of the Wolfville Formation
Genus	Species	Member	Abundance	Notes	Images
Indet.	Indet.			Remains of a procolophonid that are too fragmentary to be assigned to a species

See also

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils