Portland Formation
The Portland Formation is a geological formation in Connecticut and Massachusetts in the northeastern United States. It dates back to the Early Jurassic period. The formation consists mainly of sandstone laid down by a series of lakes and the floodplain of a river. The sedimentary rock layers representing the entire Portland Formation are over thick and were formed over about 4 million years of time, from the Hettangian age to the late Hettangian and Sinemurian ages.
In 2016, the paleontologist Robert E. Weems and colleagues suggested the Portland Formation should be elevated to a geological group within the Newark Supergroup, and thereby replacing the former name "Agawam Group". They also reinstated the Longmeadow Sandstone as a formation ; it had earlier been considered identical to the Portland Formation.