Where: Essex County, New Jersey (40.8° N, 74.2° W: paleocoordinates 15.3° N, 19.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cedar Grove Member (Passaic Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• 700 m above the Mettlars Brooks Member and 1000 m below the Orange Mountain Basalt. In the Easton Avenue member and Second Precinct Station member of Cornet (1977). Originally thought to be the Ukrainian Member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone and gray sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Resch in 1971

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: P. E. Olsen. 1980. Fossil great lakes of the Newark Supergroup of New Jersey. In W. Manspeizer (ed.), Field Studies in New Jersey Geology and Guide to Field Trips. 52nd Annual Meeting, New York State Geological Association 352-398 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55418: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 20.10.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano

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