Lyndhurst-Rutherford tracksite: Norian, New Jersey
collected by Blackbeer 1969

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Rhynchosauroides brunswickii (Ryan and Willard 1947)
original and current combination Kintneria brunswickii
Reptilia - Grallatoridae
Anchisauripus spp.
Grallator spp.
Atreipus milfordensis (Bock 1952)
synonym of Grallator tuberosus
YPM 9960
Reptilia
Coelurosaurichnus sp. Huene 1941
    = Coelurosaurichnus informal sp. 2. Huene 1941
Olsen and Baird 1986
Reptilia - Parasuchidae
Apatopus sp. Baird 1957
    = Apatopus lineatus Bock 1952
Olsen and Baird 1986
Reptilia - Chirotheriidae
Brachychirotherium eyermani (Baird 1957)
Brachychirotherium parvum (Hitchcock 1889)
unclassified
Scoyenia sp. White 1929
Olsen 2005
Kouphichnium sp. Nopcsa 1923
Olsen 2005
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Jersey County:Bergen
Coordinates: 40.8° North, 74.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.4° North, 19.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:28 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Norian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Norian
Age range of interval:227.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chatham Formation:Passaic Member:Kilmer
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Approx. 1400 m above the local base of the Lockatong Formation and 1700 m below the Orange Mountain Basalt. Late Norian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red siltstone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: "local lithology consists of beds of platy red siltstone and fine sandstone separated by more massive red siltstones and sandstones"
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:YPM
Collectors:Blackbeer Collection dates:1969
Metadata
Database number:55412
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-10-19 15:41:37 Last modified:2023-06-14 15:50:06
Access level:the public Released:2005-10-19 15:41:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

14907.ETE P. E. Olsen and D. Baird. 1986. The ichnogenus Atreipus and its significance for Triassic biostratigraphy. In: K. Padian (ed.), The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Changes Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 61-87 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

18115ETE P. E. Olsen. 2005. Field Guide for Non-marine Boundary Events in the Newark Basin (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut), Eastern United States and their Litho-, Chrono- and Biostratigraphic Context. Guidebooks for Field Workshops of IGCP 458 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]
55918 P. E. Olsen and D. Baird. 1986. Milford revisited: with notes on a new ichnofaunule from the Norian of New Jersey. In D. D. Gillette (ed.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, Abstracts with Program 21-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
85047 D. B. Weishampel and L. Young. 1996. Dinosaurs of the East Coast xiii-275 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]