Princeton metoposaur (Triassic of the United States)

Where: New Jersey (40.3° N, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 14.9° N, 19.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Stockton Formation (Chatham Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• upper Stockton Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, yellow sandstone

• "Rusty-weathering, buff-coloured sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by A. Robertiello, Jr. in the 1950s; reposited in the YPM

Primary reference: D. Baird. 1986. Some Upper Triassic reptiles, footprints and an amphibian from New Jersey. The Mosasaur 3:125-153 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 92106: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 30.10.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Metoposauridae
Metoposauridae indet.
Metoposauridae indet. Watson 1919 tetrapod
YPM PU 18364, mold of interclavicle