Belleville Quarry (Triassic of the United States)

Where: Essex County, New Jersey (40.8° N, 74.2° W: paleocoordinates 15.4° N, 19.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• middle part of the Passaic Formation

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by Edwards in 1895; 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 92108: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 30.10.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Phytosauria - Parasuchidae
Rutiodon sp. Emmons 1856 archosaur
YPM 3772, right maxilla