Where: Passaic County, New Jersey (40.8° N, 74.1° W: paleocoordinates 16.4° N, 19.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Passaic Formation (Chatham Group), Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• "upper" part of the formation; late Norian-Rhaetian (Sues et al. 2000); Newark Supergroup

•Originally enterd group name >>Newark<< is replaced by >>Chatham<< since all Upper Triassic formations of the Newark Supergroup are assigned to the Chatham Group, according to Weems & Olsen (1997, GSA Bulletin 109(2)) (TL).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by C. Laskowich in 1974; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: salvage,

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 92107: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 30.10.2009

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