Irrigation pond on Jackson Road (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Gloucester County, New Jersey (39.7° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 50.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Navesink Formation (Monmouth Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• "recovered from spoil piles dredged from the uppermost levels of the Navesink Formation"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: salvage, surface (float)

Primary reference: D. C. Parris. 1974. Additional records of plesiosaurs from the Cretaceous of New Jersey. Journal of Paleontology 48(1):32-35 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 102186: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 11.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "all New Jersey plesiosaurs were found in formations that contain the Cucullaea faunal association (Weller, 1907)"
Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Cimoliasaurus magnus Leidy 1851 elasmosaur
NJSM 11262
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnitellidae
Belemnitella indet. d'Orbigny 1840 belemnite