SITE #5 - All footprints from this site are from the Triassic Period (225 mya, age of the first dinosaurs). In the 1800's to mid-1900's quarries excavated acres of land looking for the riches ores or the highest quality materials. When they exposed a fossil bearing layer they unknowingly ignored it's value and continued excavating. Now what's left are waste piles and some exposures which were ignored. The slabs here are red and olive-green sandstones which were deposited during the formation of the Newark rift basin.
