Atlantic Highlands, 0.7 m [Navesink Fm] (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine siliciclastic setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Glauconitic sand. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

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

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ammonoids, other groups may be present, but are not listed. NOMENCLATURE: An authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Pseudophyllites indra Forbes 1846 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Kitchinites sp. Spath 1922 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
"Jeletzkytes cf. nodosus" = Hoploscaphites nodosus, Hoploscaphites pumilus
"Jeletzkytes cf. nodosus" = Hoploscaphites nodosus Owen 1852 ammonite
Hoploscaphites pumilus Stephenson 1941 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
"Nostoceras (Nostoceras) pauper" = Nostoceras pauper Whitfield 1892 ammonite
"Nostoceras (Nostoceras) hyatti" = Nostoceras hyatti Stephenson 1941 ammonite
Nostoceras (Nostoceras) helicinum Shumard 1861 ammonite
Cirroceras conradi Morton 1841 ammonite
Axonoceras cf. angolanum Haas 1943 ammonite
Didymoceras cf. draconis Stephenson 1941 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites ovatus Say 1820 ammonite
Baculites claviformis Stephenson 1941 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Lewyites oronensis Lewy 1969 ammonite