Also known as Firestone Library
Where: Mercer County, New Jersey (40.3° N, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 14.9° N, 19.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Stockton Formation (Chatham Group), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)
• also assigned to basal Lockatong Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected by O. Abel
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: K. E. Caster. 1939. Were Micrichnus scotti Abel and Artiodactylus sinclairi Abel of the Newark Series (Triassic) made by vertebrates or limuloids?. American Journal of Science 237(11):786-797 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190915: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Xiphosura | |
Micrichnus scotti n. gen. n. sp., Artiodactylus sinclairi n. gen. n. sp.
Micrichnus scotti n. gen. n. sp. Abel 1926
Artiodactylus sinclairi n. gen. n. sp. Abel 1926 | |
Coelacanthimorpha | |
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Actinopteri | |
Semionotus sp.3 Agassiz 1832 | |
Osteichthyes | |
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Gnathostomata | |
Osteopleurus newarki1 Bryant 1934 |