sentences:  Accumulation of Newark sediments within the rift basins continued from the late Triassic into the early Jurassic.The separate basins and sub-basins of the Newark Supergroup have historically been given their own geological formations by local paleontologists.However, a study by Weems, Tanner, and Lucas (2016) proposed that the formations of the Newark Supergroup should be defined on a regional scale due to their geological uniformity over eastern North America.