Also known as Roseland Quarry, Riker Hill Fossil Site, Walter Kidde Dinosaur Park
Where: Essex County, New Jersey (40.8° N, 74.3° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 18.5° N, 10.6° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: A Member (Towaco Formation), Hettangian (201.4 - 199.5 Ma)
• unit 6 = bed f = Unit c
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; gray, blue siltstone and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: P. E. Olsen. 1980. The latest Triassic and early Jurassic formations of the Newark Basin (eastern North America): stratigraphy, structure, & correlation. The Bulletin of the New Jersey Academy of Science 25(2):25-51 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187193: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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