Also known as Fort Lee
Where: Bergen County, New Jersey (40.8° N, 74.0° W: paleocoordinates 15.5° N, 19.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Stockton Formation (Chatham Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• "20 ft below the thick sheet of basalt of the Palisades...hence near the base of the Newark series" (Lull 1915)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, sandy marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. E. Hyde, D. D. Condit, & A. C. Boyle Jr. in 1911; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
• discovered by J. E. Hyde, D. D. Condit, & A. C. Boyle Jr.
Primary reference: W. D. Matthew. 1911. Fort Lee dinosaur. The American Museum Journal 11:28-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 62836: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.07.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Rutiodon manhattanensis n. sp.
Rutiodon manhattanensis n. sp. Huene 1913 archosaur |