Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.4° N, 74.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 49.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Baculites jenseni ammonoid zone, Navesink Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Navesink, which at this section unconformably overlies the Mount Laurel Sand (Campanian), and is regionally overlain by the Red Bank Sand (Maastrichtian). AGE: Late Campanian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy; Baculites jenseni zone (placed through occurrence of Nostoceras hyatti and/or Jeletzkytes nodosus. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 0.7 m above base of the section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, glauconitic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Monmouth Amateur Paleontologists Society, ~1980-2000. REPOSITORY: Monmouth Amateur Paleontologists Society (MAPS).
Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy, N. H. Landman, W. A. Cobban and R. O. Johnson. 2000. Additions to the ammonite fauna of the Upper Cretaceous Navesink Formation of New Jersey. American Museum Novitates 3306:1-30 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 83064: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Pseudophyllites indra Forbes 1846 ammonite | |
Kitchinites sp. Spath 1922 ammonite | |
Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) neubergicus Hauer 1858 ammonite | |
"Jeletzkytes cf. nodosus" = Hoploscaphites nodosus, Hoploscaphites pumilus
"Jeletzkytes cf. nodosus" = Hoploscaphites nodosus Owen 1852 ammonite
Hoploscaphites pumilus Stephenson 1941 ammonite | |
"Nostoceras (Nostoceras) pauper" = Nostoceras pauper, "Nostoceras (Nostoceras) hyatti" = Nostoceras hyatti, Nostoceras (Nostoceras) appoximans, Nostoceras (Nostoceras) helicinum, Cirroceras conradi, Axonoceras cf. angolanum, Didymoceras cf. draconis
"Nostoceras (Nostoceras) pauper" = Nostoceras pauper Whitfield 1892 ammonite
"Nostoceras (Nostoceras) hyatti" = Nostoceras hyatti Stephenson 1941 ammonite
Nostoceras (Nostoceras) appoximans ammonite
Nostoceras (Nostoceras) helicinum Shumard 1861 ammonite
Cirroceras conradi Morton 1841 ammonite
Axonoceras cf. angolanum Haas 1943 ammonite
Didymoceras cf. draconis Stephenson 1941 ammonite | |
Baculites ovatus Say 1820 ammonite
Baculites claviformis Stephenson 1941 ammonite | |
Lewyites oronensis Lewy 1969 ammonite |