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Science 21 December 1973:
Vol. 182. no. 4118, pp. 1243 - 1247
DOI: 10.1126/science.182.4118.1243
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Fossil Spores, Pollen, and Fishes from Connecticut Indicate Early Jurassic Age for Part of the Newark Group

Bruce Cornet 1, Alfred Traverse 1, and Nicholas G. McDonald 2

1 Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802
2 Department of Geology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut 06457

Palynologically productive localities have been found in the United States throughout the Newark Group basins, most of which had previously been assumed to be barren. Rich palynoflorules dominated by coniferous pollen of Circulina-Classopollis type, and well-preserved fossil fishes, including possible new semionotids, have been found in the Hartford basin. Palynological data indicate that the Newark Group has considerable time-stratigraphic range: Upper Triassic for the Cumnock Formation (North Carolina), the Vinita Beds (Virginia), and the upper New Oxford Formation (Pennsylvania), Rhaeto-Liassic for the Brunswick Formation (New Jersey), Portland Formation (Connecticut and Massachusetts), and the Shuttle Meadow Formation (Connecticut).


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