Where: Somerset County, New Jersey (40.5° N, 74.8° W: paleocoordinates 15.0° N, 19.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Neshanic Member (Passaic Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Higgins in 1936
• NJSM: New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
Primary reference: G. L. Jepsen. 1948. A Triassic armored reptile from New Jersey. State of New Jersey Department of Conservation Miscellaneous Geologic Paper 1-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 89131: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 06.05.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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