Palisades escarpment, Weehawken (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Hudson County, New Jersey (40.8° N, 74.0° W: paleocoordinates 15.4° N, 19.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lockatong Formation (Chatham Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• "cycle 6"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. Braun, P. Olsen in the 1886, 1970s

Collection methods: quarrying,

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 187289: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.07.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Diapsida - Tanystropheidae
Tanytrachelos sp. Olsen 1979 archosauromorph
Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Semionotus sp. Agassiz 1832