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

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

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