Shuttle Meadow Formation

{{Short description|Geological Formation in Connecticut and Massachusetts}}

{{Infobox rockunit

| name = Shuttle Meadow Formation

| image = Ct farmington quarry.jpg

| caption = Talcott Formation over Shuttle Meadow Formation in a quarry (Connecticut)

| type = Geological formation

| age = Hettangian
~{{fossil range|201|199}}

| period = Hettangian

| prilithology = Black shale

| otherlithology = Siltstone

| namedfor =

| namedby =

| region = New England

| country = {{Flag|United States}}

| coordinates = {{coord|41.4|N|72.7|W|display=inline,title}}

| paleocoordinates = {{coord|22.1|N|19.5|W|display=inline}}

| unitof = Newark Supergroup
 Meriden Group

| subunits =

| underlies = Talcott Formation

| overlies =

| thickness =

| extent = {{Flag|Connecticut}} and {{Flag|Massachusetts}}

| area =

| map = {{Location map+ | United States#Connecticut

| relief = 1

| width = 250

| float = center

| places =

{{Location map~ | United States#Connecticut

| lat_deg = 41.4

| lon_deg = -72.7

| mark = Blue pog.svg

| marksize = 12

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The Shuttle Meadow Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in the Hartford Basin in Connecticut and Massachusetts, USA.Olsen, P.E., Schliesche, R.W., Gore, P.J.W. (Editors), 1989, Tectonic, Depositional, and Paleoecological History of Early Mesozoic Rift Basins, Eastern North America Field Trip Guidebook T351. International Geological Congress Field Trip T351. American Geophysical Union, Washington, 174 p. Insect fossils of Mormolucoides articulatus and dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation; Coelophysis sp.Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.