Whitehall tracksite (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Sussex County, New Jersey (41.0° N, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 15.2° N, 19.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Triassic (237.0 - 201.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, red sandstone

• "a fine-grained red sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by G. H. Cook

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C. H. Hitchcock. 1889. Recent progress in ichnology. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 24(8):117-127 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 91694: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.10.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
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"Tridentipes ingens" = Steropoides ingens
"Tridentipes ingens" = Steropoides ingens Hitchcock 1836 reptile
 Pseudosuchia - Batrachopodidae
"Anisichnus gracilis" = Batrachopus gracilis
"Anisichnus gracilis" = Batrachopus gracilis Hitchcock 1845 aetosaur
 Ornithischia - Moyenisauropodidae
"Anomoepus intermedius" = Anomoepus scambus
"Anomoepus intermedius" = Anomoepus scambus Hitchcock 1848 ornithopod
 Theropoda - Grallatoridae
"Brontozoum giganteum" = Eubrontes giganteus, "Brontozoum sillimanium" = Eubrontes sillimani, "Brontozoum minusculum" = Eubrontes minusculus, "Grallator formosus" = Grallator tenuis, "Grallator cursorius" = Grallator cursorius, "Grallator parallelus" = Grallator cursorius
"Brontozoum giganteum" = Eubrontes giganteus Hitchcock 1836 theropod
"Brontozoum sillimanium" = Eubrontes sillimani Hitchcock 1843 theropod
"Brontozoum minusculum" = Eubrontes minusculus Hitchcock 1837 theropod
"Grallator formosus" = Grallator tenuis Hitchcock 1858 theropod
"Grallator cursorius" = Grallator cursorius Hitchcock 1858 theropod
"Grallator parallelus" = Grallator cursorius Hitchcock 1858 theropod