Gorge and River roads, Edgwater (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Bergen 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)

• cycles 1-6

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; gray siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. Olsen

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187318: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.07.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes - Dipluridae
Diplurus sp. Newberry 1878 coelacanth
Reptilia
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Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
"deep-tailed swimmer"
 Diapsida - Tanystropheidae
Tanytrachelos sp. Olsen 1979 archosauromorph
Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Semionotus sp. Agassiz 1832
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Turseodus sp. Leidy 1857