Newark tracksite: Norian, New Jersey
collected by Resch 1971
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Anchisauripus sillimani
(Hitchcock 1843)
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Olsen and Baird 1986 | |||||||||
| recombined as Eubrontes sillimani | ||||||||||
| PU 21518 | ||||||||||
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Grallator sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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Anchisauripus tuberosus
(Hitchcock 1836)
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Olsen and Baird 1986 | |||||||||
| recombined as Grallator tuberosus | ||||||||||
| PU 21516 | ||||||||||
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Atreipus sp.
Olsen and Baird 1986
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Olsen and Baird 1986 | |||||||||
| PU 21517 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Chirotheriidae
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Chirotherium sp.
Kaup 1835
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= Brachychirotherium sp.
Beurlen 1950
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Olsen 2005 | |||||||||
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Branchiopoda
- Cyzicidae
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Cyzicus sp.
Audouin 1837
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unclassified
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Scoyenia sp.
White 1929
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Jersey | County: | Essex |
| Coordinates: | 40.8° North, 74.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 15.3° North, 19.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 39 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Triassic |
| Stage: | Norian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Norian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 227.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Chatham | Formation: | Passaic | Member: | Cedar Grove |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 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. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | siltstone |
| Secondary lithology: | gray sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Resch | Collection dates: | 1971 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 55418 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-10-20 14:17:55 | Last modified: | 2023-06-14 15:50:21 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-10-20 14:17:55 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 62822. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 18115 | ETE | P. E. Olsen. 2005. Field Guide for Non-marine Boundary Events in the Newark Basin (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut), Eastern United States and their Litho-, Chrono- and Biostratigraphic Context. Guidebooks for Field Workshops of IGCP 458 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] |
| 14907 | ETE | P. E. Olsen and D. Baird. 1986. The ichnogenus Atreipus and its significance for Triassic biostratigraphy. In: K. Padian (ed.), The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Changes Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 61-87 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] |
| 85047 | D. B. Weishampel and L. Young. 1996. Dinosaurs of the East Coast xiii-275 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |