Where: Essex County, New Jersey (40.8° N, 74.2° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 14.3° N, 8.7° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cedar Grove Member (Passaic Formation), Norian (227.3 - 205.7 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
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Branchiopoda | |
Cyzicus sp. Audouin 1837 clam shrimp | |
Reptilia | |
Grallator sp., "Anchisauripus tuberosus" = Grallator tuberosus2, "Anchisauripus sillimani" = Eubrontes sillimani2, Atreipus sp.2
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod | |
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Scoyenia sp. White 1929 |