Atlantic Highlands: Maastrichtian, New Jersey
collected by W. Gallagher

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Nucleolitidae
Catopygus ? williamsi Clark 1907
recombined as Catopygus (Oolopygus) williamsi
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Mosasaurus dekayi Bronn 1838
Gallagher 2005
Mosasaurus conodon (Cope 1881)
Gallagher 2005
Reptilia - Azhdarchidae
Titanopteryx sp. Arambourg 1959
1 specimen
cervical vertebra
    = cf. Titanopteryx sp. Arambourg 1959
Gallagher 1993
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869
Gallagher 1993 1 specimen
MAPS 1213b
Reptilia - Testudines
Peritresius ornatus (Leidy 1856)
Gallagher 1993 1 specimen
PU 23569
Corsochelys sp. Zangerl 1960
Gallagher 1993 1 specimen
MAPS 1216a
Osteopygis emarginatus Cope 1868
Gallagher 1993 1 specimen
NJSM 12921, frontal and prefrontal
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnitellidae
Belemnitella americana
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Gyrodes sp. Conrad 1860
Lunatia sp. Gray 1847
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Bernaya (Bernaya) burlingtonensis (Schilder 1932)
Groves 1990
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Pyropsidae
Pyropsis sp. (Conrad 1860)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Paranomia sp. Conrad 1860
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra sp. Say 1820
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa mortoni Rathbun 1935
Demospongiae - Clavulina - Clionaidae
Cliona cretacica
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Jersey County:Monmouth
Coordinates: 40.4° North, 74.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.6° North, 49.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Monmouth Formation:Navesink
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: two layers, upper part of formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,pebbly,black,green sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "Fine to medium glauconitic sand with small quartz pebbles in basal portion, greenish black (5 G 2/1 to 5 GY 2/1), with two distinct fossiliferous layers at 0.5–0.7 m and 0.8–0.9 m.
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:W. Gallagher
Metadata
Database number:78124
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, P. Wagner, M. Carrano, M. Uhen Enterer:U. Merkel, M. Shalap, P. Wagner, M. Carrano
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-01-29 02:07:47 Last modified:2021-02-25 04:41:35
Access level:the public Released:2008-01-29 02:07:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
39861. W. B. Gallagher. 1984. Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary. The Mosasaur 2:9-43 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

54671 W. B. Gallagher. 1993. The Cretaceous/Tertiary mass extinction event in the North Atlantic coastal plain. The Mosasaur 5:75-154 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
39857 W. B. Gallagher. 2005. Recent mosasaur discoveries from New Jersey and Delaware, USA: stratigraphy, taphonomy and implications for mosasaur extinction. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 84(3):241-245 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap]
57733 L. T. Groves. 1990. New Species of Late Cretaceous Cypraeacea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from California and Mississippi, and a Review of Cretaceous Cypraeaceans of North America. The Veliger 33(3):272-285 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]