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 21.4° N, 20.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: A Member (Towaco Formation), Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)
• unit 5 = bed e = part of Unit b
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; paleosol/pedogenic, coarse-grained, red, conglomeratic siltstone and paleosol/pedogenic, red, calcareous sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace
Collected in 1968
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: P. E. Olsen. 1975. The microstratigraphy of the Roseland Quarry (Early Jurassic, Newark Supergroup, New Jersey). Open File Report 1-101 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 62838: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.07.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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