West Paterson Quarry tracksite (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as Clifton Quarry, Hamilton, UBC, Dell, Woodland Park

Where: Passaic County, New Jersey (40.9° N, 74.2° W: paleocoordinates 19.8° N, 20.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Passaic Formation (Chatham Group), Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• 2 layers with tracks, 15-30 cm apart. Orig. assigned to Early Jurassic, but now should be Late Triassic

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; siltstone and brown sandstone

• sandstone and siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected in the 2000s

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: W. B. Gallagher and P. A. Hanczaryk. 2006. The West Paterson Quarry: an Early Jurassic dinosaur track site in the Newark Basin of New Jersey. In J. D. Harris, S. G. Lucas, J. A. Spielmann, M. G. Lockley, A. R. C. Milner, J. I. Kirkland (eds.), The Triassic-Jurassic Terrestrial Transition. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 37:238-240 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 194093: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
Eubrontes giganteus, "Anchisauripus sillimani" = Eubrontes sillimani, Grallator sp., "Grallator parallelus" = Grallator cursorius, Anchisauripus sp.
Eubrontes giganteus Hitchcock 1836 theropod
NJSM 13797, 18756, 19777
"Anchisauripus sillimani" = Eubrontes sillimani Hitchcock 1843 theropod
Grallator sp. Hitchcock 1858 theropod
NJSM 13000, 19773, 19778
"Grallator parallelus" = Grallator cursorius Hitchcock 1858 theropod
Anchisauripus sp. Lull 1904 theropod
NJSM 19775, 19776, 19778–19781, 19786
 Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae
Batrachopus deweyi Hitchcock 1843 aetosaur
NJSM 19774, 19778, 19782–19785
Batrachopus cf. bellus Hitchcock 1858 aetosaur
NJSM 13801
Batrachopus bellus Hitchcock 1858 aetosaur
NJSM 19315