Nishisakawick Creek, Everittstown (Triassic of the United States)

Also known as Nishisackawick

Where: Hunterdon County, New Jersey (40.5° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 15.1° N, 20.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Warford Member (Passaic Formation), Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• Low in the Passaic Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collected by Kerr & Smith in 1971; 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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92082: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 29.10.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pseudosuchia - Stagonolepididae
Stegomus arcuatus Marsh 1896 aetosaur
YPM PU 21750, natural cast of ventral aspect of skull and dorsal carapace