Also known as Eosuchus (Gavialis) minor type locality

Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.0° N, 74.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 57.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Manasquan Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Holotype of Eosuchus minor of uncertain derivation; as catalogued, it is from the Manasquan Formation, New Jersey (Early Eocene/ Ypresian); but it may actually derive from the Vincentown Formation, New Jersey (Late Paleocene/Thanetian) (Brochu 2006). Orig. described as "Eocene greensand."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. Hurley; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: O. C. Marsh. 1870. Notice of a new species of gavial from the Eocene of New Jersey. The American Journal of Science and Arts, series 2 50(148):97-99 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123513: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 24.01.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano

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