Also known as Roseland Quarry, Riker Hill Fossil Site, Walter Kidde Dinosaur Park
Where: Essex County, New Jersey (40.8° N, 74.3° W: paleocoordinates 21.4° N, 20.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: B Member (Towaco Formation), Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)
• unit 18 = bed n = Unit f
•Includes beds 18a, 18b, 18c
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; fine-grained, red mudstone and sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace
Collected in 1968
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: Anonymous. 1970. The dinosaurs finally win one. Life 69(24):73-74 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 55527: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.10.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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