Linden Sand Pit, Sayreville (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as New Jersey amber

Where: Middlesex County, New Jersey (40.5° N, 74.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 40.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Raritan/Magothy Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; amber

• "washed into a coastal margin channel system from an area forested by conifers, early angiosperms and ferns"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: amber

Collected by R. Johnson, P. Dillon in 1988 - 1994

Collection methods: quarrying,

• ANSP collection

•"amber excavation"

Primary reference: J. K. Gelhaus and R. Johnson. 1996. First record of crane flies (Tipulidae: Limoniinae) in Upper Cretaceous amber from New Jersey, U.S.A. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 122(1):55-65 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105001: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 13.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

• "41 families of insects" are present but not identified down to genus level
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Insecta
 Diptera - Limoniidae
Cheilotrichia (Empeda) cretacea n. sp., Limonia dillonae n. sp.
Cheilotrichia (Empeda) cretacea n. sp. Gelhaus and Johnson 1996 crane fly
Limonia dillonae n. sp. Gelhaus and Johnson 1996 crane fly