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)
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