Mullica Hill (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Gloucester County, New Jersey (39.7° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 50.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1933. Corals of the Cretaceous of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains and Western Interior of the United States. Bulletins of American Paleontology 18(67):85-288 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123407: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
? Paracyathus vaughani Weller 1907 stony coral