Watchung Reservation, Feltville (Jurassic of the United States)

Also known as Blue Brook tracksite

Where: Union County, New Jersey (40.7° N, 74.4° W: paleocoordinates 21.5° N, 20.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Unit b Member (Feltville Formation), Early/Lower Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• base of formation, early Hettangian; about 7 m below top, in Unit b

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, red siltstone and paleosol/pedogenic, fine-grained sandstone

• "gray climbing ripple crosslaminated siltstone and fine sandstone"; "beds of gray and red siltstone and fine ripple-bedded sandstone wth abundant roots and reptile footprints"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. E. Olsen. 1980. Triassic and Jurassic formations of the Newark Basin. In W. Manspeizer (ed.), Field Studies in New Jersey Geology and Guide to Field Trips. 52nd Annual Meeting, New York State Geological Association 2-39 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 62837: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur